how to invoke fragmentB method in another fragmentA - android-fragments

I have a fragment_A with tabs, consider tabs as fragment_B and C. And am implementing custom keypad with "Done" key in it. In my main Activity iam calling the listener to press the done button
// Used when "Done" button pressed in keyboard
#Override
public void keylisten() {
((Housing) fragmentStack.lastElement()).whenokkeypressed();
}
Now i want to call a method from fragment_B which goes into the whenokkeypressed() of the fragment_A;

There are 2 things you should do
Make whenonkeypressed() static and call it from class name of the fragment like Fragment_A.whenonkeypressed()
(optional) instead of using keylisten of done in mainActivity you should prefer an anonymous inner class like
editText.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
#Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent arg0) {
whenonkeypressed();
} });

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JavaFX - Call "updateMessage" for TextArea from background Task - Two problems found

I am having two problems when trying to use "updateMessage" in a JavaFX task.
Issue #1
seems to be a known behavior, but I am not yet sure how exactly I can workaround it.This one is not (yet) critical to me.
The problem is that not all the updates I am performing in a background Task are displayed in the UI (at least the UI does not hang/freezes anymore, which was my initial issue).
My Code of the UI part:
TextArea console = new TextArea();
Button button01 = new Button("Start");
button01.setOnAction(new EventHandler() {
#Override
public void handle(Event event) {
if (ms.getState() == State.READY) {
ms.messageProperty().addListener(new ChangeListener<String>() {
#Override
public void changed(ObservableValue<? extends String> observable,
String oldValue, String newValue) {
console.appendText(newValue+"\n");
}
});
ms.start();
}
}
});
My Service:
public class MyService extends Service<Object> {
#Override
protected Task createTask() {
//here we use "MyTask" first to show problem #1
MyTask ct = new MyTask();
//here we use "MyTask2" first to show problem #2
// MyTask2 ct = new MyTask2();
try {
ct.call();
} catch (Exception e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
System.out.println("MyService end");
return ct;
}
}
My Task (#1)
public class MyTask extends Task<Object> {
#Override
public EventHandler<WorkerStateEvent> call() {
System.out.println("call() is called");
if (Thread.currentThread().getName().equals("JavaFX Application Thread")){//yes, this might not be right, but if I do not do this, my stuff is executed twice because "call()" is called twice, but the textarea area is just updated in the second run (the non javafx application thread).
return null;
} else{
//actually here I want to do some 'heavy' stuff in the background
//and many things of this heavy stuff should be displayed / logged within the UI
//but very likely (hopefully) new messages (updateMessage) will not be send as fast as in the following loop
for (int i=0;i<10000000;i++){
updateMessage("This is update number'"+i+"' from the background thread");
}
Platform.runLater(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
try{
//here is the chance to get back to the view
}finally{
}
}
});
return null;
}
}
This basically works, but not every single loop is displayed in the UI.
How do I (correctly) make sure every loop is displayed?
Screenshot: Messages are displayed but not for every loop
Issue #2
Currently blocks my attempt to bring my little text-based game into a JavaFX application.
The main problem is that I am able to call "updateMessage" from the Task directly (see above), but not from a another (sub-)class which I would need to bring all message updates from my game (each message describes the progress of the game) to the UI.
The Task I use (Task #2):
public class MyTask2 extends Task<Object> {
#Override
public EventHandler<WorkerStateEvent> call() {
// ...
UITools myTools = new UITools();
myTools.logToUITest("Just one simple message");
// ...
Platform.runLater(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
try{
//here is the chance to get back to the view
}finally{
}
}
});
return null;
}
and the (sub-)class that I want to use to do the updateMessage (actually in my little game there would be even more classes that are called during the game and almost all of them trigger an update/message).
public class UITools {
public void logToUITest(String message){
updateMessage(message);
//how to allow 'updateMessage' from the Task to be executed from here?
}
This already results in "The method updateMessage(String) is undefined...".
How could I make it possible to call the updateMessage outside of the Task itself?
updateMessage() can only be called from within the call() method of a Task. It's a constraint imposed by the design of the Task class.
The missed message updates are due to the fact that there are too many updates and not all of them are forwarded to the event queue. Try to reduce the number of updates or sleep for a little while to separate them out in time

JavaFX How to stop cursor from moving to a new line in a TextArea when Enter is pressed

I have a Chat application. I'd like the cursor in the chatTextArea to get back to the position 0 of the TextArea chatTextArea.
This, however, won't work:
chatTextArea.setOnKeyPressed(new EventHandler<KeyEvent>() {
#Override
public void handle(KeyEvent ke) {
if (ke.getCode().equals(KeyCode.ENTER)) {
ChatClient.main(new String[]{"localhost", String.valueOf(4444), chatTextArea.getText()});
chatTextArea.setText("");
chatTextArea.positionCaret(0);
}
}
});
How can I get it to work? Thank you.
The TextArea internally does not use the onKeyPressed property to handle keyboard input. Therefore, setting onKeyPressed does not remove the original event handler.
To prevent TextArea's internal handler for the Enter key, you need to add an event filter that consumes the event:
chatTextArea.addEventFilter(KeyEvent.KEY_PRESSED, new EventHandler<KeyEvent>() {
#Override
public void handle(KeyEvent ke) {
if (ke.getCode().equals(KeyCode.ENTER)) {
ChatClient.main(new String[]{"localhost", String.valueOf(4444), chatTextArea.getText()});
chatTextArea.setText("");
// chatTextArea.positionCaret(0); // not necessary
ke.consume(); // necessary to prevent event handlers for this event
}
}
});
Event filter uses the same EventHandler interface. The difference is only that it is called before any event handler. If an event filter consumes the event, no event handlers are fired for that event.

How to let the listener run without freezing on JavaFX?

What I'm trying to do is printing texts on textarea in real time
even after the button is clicked.
When I click the button, the UI freezes until its job finishes, and after that,
it prints all the texts together unlike System.out.println.
The code below is what I tried, and it doesn't work as I expected.
UI just hangs and doesn't show me 'test' on textarea.
There's no need to use the listener, and it's okay to use appendText only,
but I just can't find out how to let the ActionEvent for the button work without freezing the UI.
I will really appreciate your any help or much better code!!
final TextField announcement = new TextField();
Platform.runLater(new Runnable() {
#Override public void run() {
announcement.textProperty().addListener(new javafx.beans.value.ChangeListener<String>() {
public void changed(ObservableValue<? extends String> observable, String oldValue, String newValue) {
textoutput.appendText(announcement.getText());
}
});
}
});
btn.setOnAction(new EventHandler<ActionEvent>() {
#Override
public void handle(ActionEvent event) {
announcement.setText("test");
// bunch of codes below
}
});
Have you tried using Platform.runLater? I have code where I have long-running Tasks that periodically updates the UI using the Platform.runLater() calls. It does this by running the Runnable on the JavaFX application's main thread so it is executed separately from your long task.
E.g. (using Java8 lambdas - you could just pass in a new Runnable implementation instead; I prefer lambdas in this situation for clarity's sake):
btn.setOnAction(new EventHandler<ActionEvent>() {
#Override
public void handle(ActionEvent event) {
// Somewhere in your new Task()
Platform.runLater(() -> {
// Update UI
announcement.setText("test");
});
// bunch of codes below
}
});
The reason for this is that your event handler is executing on FX thread, so UI cannot be updated until it has finished. As already suggested by ItachiUchiha, you should put your code inside Task. When you need to update text in TextArea, use Tasks updateMessage() method. Put a ChangeListener on Tasks message property, and set text from within that listener.

Calling a non-parental Activity method from fragment without creating a new instance

I have my MainActivity and inside that I have a number of fragments. I also have another activity that works as my launcher and does everything to do with the Google Drive section of my app. On start up this activity launches, connects to Drive and then launches the MainActivity. I have a button in one of my fragments that, when pushed, needs to call a method in the DriveActivity. I can't create a new instance of DriveActivity because then googleApiClient will be null. Is this possible and how would I go about doing it? I've already tried using getActivity and casting but I'm assuming that isn't working because DriveActivity isn't the fragments parent.
button.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View view) {
//TODO for test only remove
directory = new Directory(SDCARD + LOCAL_STORAGE);
byte[] zippedFile = directory.getZippedFile(SDCARD + STORAGE_LOCATION + directory.getZipFileName());
//Here I need to somehow call DriveActivity.uploadFileToDrive(zippedFile);
//((DriveActivity)getActivity()).uploadFileToDrive(zippedFile);
}
});
Right, so I'm having a bit of difficulty with the heirarchy but I think what you want to do is define a method in the fragment that the activity will be required to override to use.
This will allow you to press the button, and then fire a method whos actual implementation is inside the parent.
public interface Callbacks {
/**
* Callback for when an item has been selected.
*/
public void onItemSelected(String id);
}
example implementation:
private static Callbacks sDummyCallbacks = new Callbacks() {
#Override
public void onItemSelected(String id) {
//Button fired logic
}
};
so in the child you'd do just call:
this.onItemSelected("ID of Class");
EDITED
In retrospect what I believe you need is an activity whos sole purpose is to upload files, not fire off other activities.
Heres an example of a 'create file' activity:Google Demo for creating a file on drive
Heres an example of the 'base upload' activity' Base Service creator

commit fragment from onLoadFinished within activity

I have an activity which loads a data list from the server using loader callbacks. I have to list out the data into a fragment which extends
SherlockListFragment
i tried to commit the fragment using
Fragment newFragment = CategoryFragment.newInstance(mStackLevel,categoryList);
FragmentTransaction ft = getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction();
ft.add(R.id.simple_fragment, newFragment).commit();
in onLoadFinished and it gives an IllegalStateException saying
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Can not perform this action inside of onLoadFinished
I have referred the example in actionbar sherlock, but those examples have loaders within the fragments and not the activity.
Can anybody help me with this o that I can fix it without calling the loader from the fragment!
Atlast, I have found a solution to this problem. Create a handle setting an empty message and call that handler onLoadFinished(). The code is similar to this.
#Override
public void onLoadFinished(Loader<List<Station>> arg0, List<Station> arg1) {
// do other actions
handler.sendEmptyMessage(2);
}
In the handler,
private Handler handler = new Handler() { // handler for commiting fragment after data is loaded
#Override
public void handleMessage(Message msg) {
if(msg.what == 2) {
Log.d(TAG, "onload finished : handler called. setting the fragment.");
// commit the fragment
}
}
};
The number of fragments depend on the requirement.
This method can be mainly used in case of stackFragments, where all fragments have different related functions.
As per the Android docs on the onLoadFinished() method:
Note that normally an application is not allowed to commit fragment transactions while in this call, since it can happen after an activity's state is saved. See FragmentManager.openTransaction() for further discussion on this.
https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/LoaderManager.LoaderCallbacks.html#onLoadFinished(android.content.Loader, D)
(Note: copy/paste that link into your browser... StackOverflow is not handling it well..)
So you simply should never load a fragment in that state. If you really don't want to put the Loader in the Fragment, then you need to initialize the fragment in your onCreate() method of the Activity, and then when onLoadFinished occurs, simply call a method on your fragment.
Some rough pseudo code follows:
public class DummyFragment {
public void setData(Object someObject) {
//do stuff
}
public class DummyActivity extends LoaderCallbacks<Object> {
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
Fragment newFragment = DummyFragment.newInstance();
FragmentTransaction ft = getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction();
ft.add(R.id.simple_fragment, newFragment).commit();
getSupportLoaderManager.initLoader(0, null, this)
}
// put your other LoaderCallbacks here... onCreateLoader() and onLoaderReset()
public void onLoadFinished(Loader<Object> loader, Object result) {
Fragment f = getSupportLoaderManager.findFragmentById(R.id.simple_fragment);
f.setData(result);
}
Obviously, you'd want to use the right object.. and the right loader, and probably define a useful setData() method to update your fragment. But hopefully this will point you in the right direction.
As #kwazi answered this is a bad user experience to call FragmentTransition.commit() from onLoadFinished(). I have found a solution for this event by using ProgressDialog.
First created ProgressDialog.setOnDismissListener(new listener) for watching the onLoadFinished().
Further i do progressDialog.show() before getLoaderManager().restartLoader().
And eventually place progressDialog.dismiss() in onLoadFinished().
Such approach allow do not bind main UI thread and Loader's thread.
public class FrPersonsListAnswer extends Fragment
implements
LoaderCallbacks<Cursor>{
private ProgressDialog progressDialog;
#Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater,
ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_persons_list, container, false);
//prepare progress Dialog
progressDialog = new ProgressDialog(curActivity);
progressDialog.setMessage("Wait...");
progressDialog.setIndeterminate(true);
progressDialog.setOnDismissListener(new OnDismissListener() {
#Override
public void onDismiss(DialogInterface dialog) {
//make FragmentTransaction.commit() here;
//but it's recommended to pass control to your Activity
//via an Interface and manage fragments there.
}
});
lv = (ListView) view.findViewById(R.id.lv_out1);
lv.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {
#Override
public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, final View view,
final int position, long id) {
//START PROGRESS DIALOG HERE
progressDialog.show();
Cursor c = (Cursor) parent.getAdapter().getItem(position);
// create Loader
getLoaderManager().restartLoader(1, null, curFragment);
}
});
return view;
}
#Override
public void onLoadFinished(Loader<Cursor> loader, Cursor data) {
switch (loader.getId()) {
case 1:
//dismiss dialog and call progressDialog.onDismiss() listener
progressDialog.dismiss();
break;
default:
break;
}
}

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