Toast does not display when used in catch block

Question

I noticed that a toast isn't displayed when it's used inside a catch block. Does anyone know how to show toasts when catching exceptions? An Example:

try {
    // try to open a file
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
    Toast.makeText(this, R.string.txt_file_not_found, Toast.LENGTH_LONG);
    return; // cancel processing
}

Alcoholic

Does it appear if you sleep for 2 seconds before the return statement? – Selfsown

No.. I tried and it didn't change anything. Nothing happens... – Alcoholic

Answer 1

Should be like this:

Toast toast = Toast.makeText(this, R.string.txt_file_not_found, Toast.LENGTH_LONG);
toast.show();

Outbid

Hah, that was blindingly obvious. Sometimes we look for the complications in the sea of simplicity. :) – Selfsown

This works but not sure why it was selected as the best answer. Why are you passing the static toast to a non static object if all you're going to do is just show it? Toast.makeText(this, R.string.txt_file_not_found, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show(); <-- this would of worked just fine and with less of a memory footprint – Ado

For people whom it doesn't work, toast can sometimes don't show when you use it in emulator, whem you test your project on own android phone it works fine. Check another topic about "toast" and "emulator" there is a problem with service. GL – Bunyan

I am also using toast in my actual Nexus S device and sometimes it also doesn't show and I don't know why. So it's not just in the emulator – Dilan

Answer 2

Yes, I put it right behind the existing line:

Toast.makeText(this, R.string.txt_file_not_found, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

Alcoholic

Not sure why that other answer got accepted as the best - this was clearly the most logical way to do it. Unless you're doing other things to the Toast, there is no need to pass the static one to another object and then use that to show... Anyways, I gave you +1 for what I thought was the best answer for this given question :) – Ado

@xil3: I think that @Alcoholic accepted the other answer because it solved the problem, but posted his/her own answer just to inform others. – Samaria