Question

I want to show a Dialog with an EditText. I envision it having two buttons: a positive button, which will persist the text contained in the EditText, and a negative button, which will cancel and return to the Activity that launched it as if nothing had happened. I have tried using an AlertDialog with no success:

AlertDialog.Builder builder = new Builder(context);
final EditText text = new EditText(context);

builder.setTitle("New Profile").setMessage("Name this new profile").setView(text);
builder.setPositiveButton("Create", new OnClickListener() {

    public void onClick(DialogInterface di, int i) {
        final String name = text.getText().toString();
        //do something with it
    }
});
builder.setNegativeButton("Cancel", new OnClickListener() {

    public void onClick(DialogInterface di, int i) {
    }
});
builder.create().show();

Am I doing something wrong with the setView() method? Would using a custom Dialog be more practical?

EDIT:

I’ve gotten several answers saying the code works for them… not sure why it isn’t working for me. Here’s the logcat:

E/AndroidRuntime(  326): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
E/AndroidRuntime(  326): android.view.WindowManager$BadTokenException: Unable to add window -- token null is not for an application
E/AndroidRuntime(  326):    at android.view.ViewRoot.setView(ViewRoot.java:531)
E/AndroidRuntime(  326):    at android.view.WindowManagerImpl.addView(WindowManagerImpl.java:177)
E/AndroidRuntime(  326):    at android.view.WindowManagerImpl.addView(WindowManagerImpl.java:91)
E/AndroidRuntime(  326):    at android.app.Dialog.show(Dialog.java:241)
E/AndroidRuntime(  326):    at com.gobernador.TopPage.onListItemClick(TopPage.java:77)
E/AndroidRuntime(  326):    at android.app.ListActivity$2.onItemClick(ListActivity.java:319)
E/AndroidRuntime(  326):    at android.widget.AdapterView.performItemClick(AdapterView.java:284)
E/AndroidRuntime(  326):    at android.widget.ListView.performItemClick(ListView.java:3513)
E/AndroidRuntime(  326):    at android.widget.AbsListView$PerformClick.run(AbsListView.java:1812)
E/AndroidRuntime(  326):    at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:587)
E/AndroidRuntime(  326):    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92)
E/AndroidRuntime(  326):    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
E/AndroidRuntime(  326):    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3683)
E/AndroidRuntime(  326):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
E/AndroidRuntime(  326):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507)
E/AndroidRuntime(  326):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:839)
E/AndroidRuntime(  326):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:597)
E/AndroidRuntime(  326):    at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

Answer 1

gobernador Agarwal is right , i also tried you code and it was working , try it by replacing context with this

AlertDialog.Builder builder = new Builder(this);
        final EditText text = new EditText(this);

        builder.setTitle("New Profile").setMessage("Name this new profile").setView(text);
        builder.setPositiveButton("Create", new OnClickListener() {

            public void onClick(DialogInterface di, int i) {
                final String name = text.getText().toString();
                //do something with it
            }
        });
        builder.setNegativeButton("Cancel", new OnClickListener() {

            public void onClick(DialogInterface di, int i) {
            }
        });
        builder.create().show();