Question

I want the dialog box to pop up after 5 seconds. Can someone explain to me what I am doing wrong? Im getting an error in the Finish() section of the timer, (I’ve only been programmming for about three months now so please bear with my stupidity.

public void run() {
    CountDownTimer counter  = new CountDownTimer(5000,1000) {

        @Override
        public void onTick(long millisUntilFinished) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub

        }
        public void onFinish() {
            if (count == value) {
                AlertDialog.Builder lost = new AlertDialog.Builder(this);  //  <-----There is my error its telling me // to go and set up my dialog AlertDialog.Builder(new CountDownTimer(){}) {  And I dont understand it


                lost.setMessage("You lost! you are ugly!" +
                        "" +
                " new game?");
                lost.setCancelable(false);
                lost.setPositiveButton("Yes", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                    public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int id) {
                        clicks.setText("Clicks ");
                        count = 1;
                        generator = new Random();
                        value = generator.nextInt(100);
                        imgBtn.setImageResource(R.drawable.push);
                    }
                });
                lost.setNegativeButton("No", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                    public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int id) {
                        generator = new Random();
                        value = generator.nextInt(100);
                        ButtonMasherActivity.this.finish();
                    }
                });

                lost.create();
                lost.show();
            }
        }

    };
    counter.start();
}

Answer 1

Try this :

AlertDialog.Builder lost = new AlertDialog.Builder(ButtonMasherActivity.this);

AlertDialog.Builder needs a Context object not a CountdownTimer object.