startactivityforresult from dialogpreference (non activity)

Question

I have a dialog preference with a button on it that I want to have open another activity. When that activity is complete, I want the dialog to update a textview (in the dialog)

Answer 1

Have you tried using:

runOnUiThread(new Runnable() { 
    public void run() 
    { 
        Intent i = new Intent("com.shared.FileChooser");
        i.putExtra("com.shared.FileChooser.EXTRA_PATH", vsbPath);
        i.putExtra("com.shared.FileChooser.EXTRA_EXTENSIONS", vsbExtensions);

        startActivityForResult(i,0);
    } 
 }); 

inside your Dialog's onClick event? That should cause it to run on the UI thread of the Activity.