Re: [android-developers] Re: Screen Brightness on 2.2

2010-11-01 Thread Dianne Hackborn
Ah! Yes that would be it. Darn tab activities. Time to replace those with something better... On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 1:05 PM, burton miller wrote: > Mystery solved. > > In both cases where I was trying to change the local brightness, I was > inside a tab container - and I guess you have to cal

[android-developers] Re: Screen Brightness on 2.2

2010-11-01 Thread burton miller
Mystery solved. In both cases where I was trying to change the local brightness, I was inside a tab container - and I guess you have to call getWindow() on the container - not on the Activity inside a particular tab. Thanks again. On Nov 1, 10:48 am, burton miller wrote: > I tried that - and no

[android-developers] Re: Screen Brightness on 2.2

2010-11-01 Thread burton miller
I tried that - and nothing. I have a pretty heavy app here - with a LOT of native code, and the screen in question is mostly a bitmap rendered on the native side So - I made dopey test app (in 5 minutes) and you are right - the code works fine in the normal case (in whatever function you cal

Re: [android-developers] Re: Screen Brightness on 2.2

2010-10-30 Thread Dianne Hackborn
In theory shouldn't, but did you try moving it to your onCreate() and seeing if it worked? It is possible there is a bug in the window manager causing it to not see a change after a window is first added. On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 11:41 AM, burton miller wrote: > In PointerLocation, you are settin

[android-developers] Re: Screen Brightness on 2.2

2010-10-30 Thread burton miller
In PointerLocation, you are setting the window attributes in the onCreate() call. I am trying do this in the onResume() call. Does that make a difference? In another case I am doing it in reponse to a seekBar setting in the midst of an Activity. It does not work there either. On Oct 29, 6:15 p

Re: [android-developers] Re: Screen Brightness on 2.2

2010-10-29 Thread Dianne Hackborn
Works fine for me in PointerLocation. *shrug* Sorry, I don't know off-hand what is going on for you. On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 4:08 PM, burton miller wrote: > Come on Diane, Mark, Reto - help a fellow out with your words of > wisdom;) > > On Oct 27, 4:55 pm, burton miller wrote: > > Anybody have

[android-developers] Re: Screen Brightness on 2.2

2010-10-29 Thread burton miller
Come on Diane, Mark, Reto - help a fellow out with your words of wisdom;) On Oct 27, 4:55 pm, burton miller wrote: > Anybody have any idea why this is not working under 2.2?  (nexus one) > > WindowManager.LayoutParams lp = getWindow().getAttributes(); > lp.screenBrightness = 1.0f; > getWindow().s

[android-developers] Re: Screen Brightness on 2.2

2010-10-29 Thread burton miller
Come on Diane, Mark, Reto - help a fellow out with your words of wisdom;) On Oct 27, 4:55 pm, burton miller wrote: > Anybody have any idea why this is not working under 2.2?  (nexus one) > > WindowManager.LayoutParams lp = getWindow().getAttributes(); > lp.screenBrightness = 1.0f; > getWindow().s