ProgressDialog doesn't appear

Question

I have the following in my Activity that I use to download a users films in their LoveFilm queue, but the ProgressDialog never appears.

public class MyListAc         


        

Answer 1

What if you call with this instead of MyListActivity.this?

It is possible, though unlikely since this is within onCreate(), that it is not being called from the UI thread.

Try surrounding the call with runOnUiThread():

    Activity me = this;
    runOnUiThread(new Runnable()
    {
        public void run()
        {
            m_progressDialog = ProgressDialog.show(me, "Please Wait", "Loading", true);
        }
    });