GUI example anyone?

[EgonOlsen]

I always fail when trying to create some gui components...may it be swing's or Android's. It's somehow not compatible with my way of thinking, i guess. I tried to open a simple dialog box after rendering some gl stuff....i just have no idea how. I can choose between some Looper.prepare()-blah exceptions, some called from wrong thread exceptions, array out of bounds and similar stuff. I know that raft has some gui elements in the bones demo, so it has to be possible. Does anybody has some simple example to get me started?

[raft]

source of Bones demo can be downloaded from download page, maybe it helps..

[EgonOlsen]

Only in the way that i shows me that i'm actually doing it right...at least not totally wrong. I can happily open my dialog, but it has to happen inside the thread that created the Activity. That's the same one that is active when pressing a key or something. I think of it as some kind of event dispatch thread. However, onDrawFrame() of the renderer doesn't seem to run in this thread...but that's where i want to open the dialog. It's a benchmark and after running all the tests, the dialog with the results should open. But i have no onKeyUp or onCreateOptionsMenu...or whatever. I'm in onDrawFrame() knowing that i want to open my dialog...i just can't. When trying it, it tells me that i have to call Looper.prepare() before doing so. When calling this, it tells me that only the thread that created the Activity is allowed to fiddle around with the views. But i can't find anything to execute something in this thread. I also tried to create the dialog myself and somehow assign it to the Activity, but you can't do that. You can add views...but a dialog isn't a view!?

[EgonOlsen]

Somehow got it working by sending a Broadcast from the onDrawFrame-method() that the Activity has a receiver for. If that is called, i'm in the right thread to open the dialog...but come on, that can't be right. I must be doing something really really stupid here...

[raft]

i guess this is what you look for

[EgonOlsen]

Splitted the topic into this and a thread for the benchmark.