Question

I’m having an issue creating a ProgressDialog in my onCreateDialog() method.
The code is as follows:

Dialog dialog;
switch(id){
    case CONNECTING:
        dialog = new ProgressDialog(this);
        dialog.setMessage("Connecting").setTitle("");
        return dialog;

Eclipse throws me an error setMessage wouldn’t be a valid Method of the type ProgressDialog, though I expect it to be there since the documentation for API8 (which I use) says so.
AFAIK the instantiation should be possible since ProgressDialog ihnerits from Dialog right?

Can someone help me at this? It’s really weird.

Answer 1

You need to change your code to:

Dialog dialog;
switch(id){
    case CONNECTING:
        dialog = new ProgressDialog(this);
        ((ProgressDialog)dialog).setMessage("Connecting");
        dialog.setTitle("");
        return dialog;

Alliteratively, you can change dialog to type ProgresssDialog if you are always returning a ProgresssDialog, but I doubt it.