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Blake
Blake

Reputation: 7547

how could I obtain the user input from a dialog?

I have this layout for a dialog. When factory.inflate(R.layout.alert_dialog_text_entry, null); is called, how can i get the user input from editText when its root layout is inflated? 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:orientation="vertical">

    <TextView 
        android:id="@+id/username_view"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginLeft="20dip"
        android:layout_marginRight="20dip"
        android:text="@string/alert_dialog_username"
        android:gravity="left"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />

    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/username_edit"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_marginLeft="20dip"
        android:layout_marginRight="20dip"
        android:scrollHorizontally="true"
        android:autoText="false"
        android:capitalize="none"
        android:gravity="fill_horizontal"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/password_view"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginLeft="20dip"
        android:layout_marginRight="20dip"
        android:text="@string/alert_dialog_password"
        android:gravity="left"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />

    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/password_edit"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_marginLeft="20dip"
        android:layout_marginRight="20dip"
        android:scrollHorizontally="true"
        android:autoText="false"
        android:capitalize="none"
        android:gravity="fill_horizontal"
        android:password="true"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />

</LinearLayout>

How to obtain the username from the user input and do sth in the onClick() method below?

    LayoutInflater factory = LayoutInflater.from(this);
    final View textEntryView = factory.inflate(R.layout.alert_dialog_text_entry, null);
    return new AlertDialog.Builder(AlertDialogSamples.this)
        .setIconAttribute(android.R.attr.alertDialogIcon)
        .setTitle(R.string.alert_dialog_text_entry)
        .setView(textEntryView)
        .setPositiveButton(R.string.alert_dialog_ok, new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
            public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int whichButton) {

                /* User clicked OK so do some stuff */
            }
        })
        .setNegativeButton(R.string.alert_dialog_cancel, new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
            public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int whichButton) {

                /* User clicked cancel so do some stuff */
            }
        })
        .create();

Upvotes: 0

Views: 259

Answers (3)

Horstinator
Horstinator

Reputation: 548

Try this:

EditText userInput = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.yourinputid);
String input = userInput.getText().toString();

Upvotes: 1

Abhi
Abhi

Reputation: 9005

Get EditText like this:

 EditText userName=(EditText)textEntryView.findViewById(R.id.username_edit);

And in PositiveButton Click listener,get the value of EditText;

userName.getText().toString();

Upvotes: 1

theomega
theomega

Reputation: 32031

Use

EditText et = (EditText)textEntryView.findViewById(R.id.username_edit);
Log.d("TAG", ev.getText());

As you already made the textEntryView final this should help you.

Upvotes: 2

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