Android : BadTokenException when I want to show a progresssDialog a second time

Question

I have a problem that I can't solve...

In my Activity, I instantiate a class like this :

MapView mapView = (MapView) findViewById(R.id.mapview);
myMap = new Map(mapView, this);

The constructor looks like this

public Map(MapView mapView, Context context) {
    this.context = context;
    this.mapView = mapView;
}

And what I want to do is to show a progressDialog during a process of this class, so, in Map, I got

private void showPath() {
    progressDialog = ProgressDialog.show(context, "Veuillez patienter", "Calcul de l'itinéraire en cours...", true, false);

    Thread thread = new Thread(this);
    thread.start();
}

When thread is over, I do

progressDialog.dismiss();

This works ! But only one time... If I click on the back button, and re open my activity, I got a BadTokenException

05-06 23:27:15.941: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1247): android.view.WindowManager$BadTokenException: Unable to add window -- token android.os.BinderProxy@44ecc8e8 is not valid; is your activity running?

I've tryed all solutions I found, but no one works... Even use a class who extends AsyncTask.

Thank you for your help

Answer 1

As what the error message told you, it's because you try to show a dialog in a Activity but the Activity is not running(have already been finished?). So before you show a dialog, you may want to make sure that the Activity is not finished:

public class MyActivity extends Activity {

    public void showDialog(Dialog dialog) {
        if (!isFinishing()) {
            // If activity is not finished, then show this dialog.
            dialog.show();
        }
    }

}