Question

I want to create a timer for the screen in an application to be frozen. Let’s say like two seconds. I don’t want the screen to react to any on screen button clicks. Is this “frowned” upon? Or is there another way of going about this.

My application:

User click:

I want to then pause everything for two seconds (so my other buttons listeners don’t go off) and then I want the listeners to go back, because I’ll turn the button back from green to grey.

Answer 1

In the click handler you could change the color and remove the onclick listener for all buttons and start a background thread that does your timing. When the background thread has slept for 2 minutes then you can add the onclick listeners back for all buttons. That way you don’t create a UI that is totally unresponsive, but you achieve the effect of disabling the buttons.

public class myListener implements OnClickListener() {
  private boolean ignoreClicks = false;

  public void setIgnoreClicks( boolean b ) { 
    this.ignoreClicks = b;
  }

  @Override
  public void onClick( View v ) {
    if ( !ignoreClicks ) {
      // use v to get the button, then change the color
      ignoreClicks = true;
      // start a new AsyncTask and give it the listener and the view
      // in doInBackground sleep for 2 seconds
      // in onPostExecute change the color of the button back to normal
      //     (you have a reference to the button because you gave the view to the AsyncTask)
      //   and set ignoreClicks to false in the listener
    }
  }
}

Create one instance of this listener and use it for every button.