Does the Framework support dialogs?

[Nathipha]

I'm using an AsyncTask to preload objects (read .obj files from storage and create GVRSceneObjects without adding them to the scene), so it doesn't just freeze the game, and a ProgressDialog to show the progress.

Since it only lets me use the standard Android context...

ProgressDialog progressdialog = new ProgressDialog(gvrcontext.getContext());

... the dialog spans the whole screen (similar to this):

https://i.imgur.com/vd5qISP.png?1

Does the Framework support any type of dialog like this in any version (I'm still on 3.0.1) or is there maybe a trick to get it to display properly within the borders of the two separate images? Or is creating your own dialogs what everyone's doing at this point?

[liaxim]

You could look at our GVRViewSceneObject class. Few demos use it; for example gvr-events, gvr-renderableview. You can pass your android view to it.

[Nathipha]

Thanks, I'll try it.

In the meantime I've solved it with a GVRTextViewSceneObject, there's no progress bar but it was updateable and looked similar (enough):

GVRTextViewSceneObject progressdialog = new GVRTextViewSceneObject(gvrc, 3f, 1f, "myText");     
progressdialog.getTransform().setPosition(x, z, y);
progressdialog.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER | Gravity.CENTER);
progressdialog.setTextSize(5);
progressdialog.setTextColor(Color.BLACK);
progressdialog.setBackgroundColor(Color.WHITE);
scene.addSceneObject(progressdialog);

[Nathipha]

A ProgressDialog is a subclass of Dialog, so not sure how to get its View and if "Window.getCurrentFocus()" (which returns a View) doesn't just return the parent View, even if you do "progressdialog.show()" first.

I'm going to try it with that one anyway once I've updated (can't pass a View yet in the version I'm using).

[liaxim]

@Nathipha Do you have other questions regarding this issue? If not, can we close it?

[Nathipha]

I haven't been able to update and test getting the View yet but for now there are no more questions. Thanks!