Android AlertDialog constructor is undefined

Question

I'm trying to have a alert dialog show if account info is missing when clicking the check the account. I get an error in Eclipse where new AlertDialog.Builder(this) saying the constructor AlertDialog.Builder(new View OnClickListener(){}) is undefined. The code works fine if I add it to the onCreate of the activity.

checkButton.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
        public void onClick(View Arg0){
            String AccNum = null, Store = null;
            final SharedPreferences settings = getSharedPreferences(CHECK_PREFERENCES, MODE_PRIVATE);

            if (settings.contains("Account") == true){
                AccNum = (settings.getString("Account", "default"));
                Store = (settings.getString("Store", "default"));
            }
            if (AccNum.length() < 7) { 
                AlertDialog alert = new AlertDialog.Builder(this).create();
                alert.setTitle("Account Information missing!");
                alert.setMessage("Enter now? ");

                alert.setButton("Yes", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                        public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int whichButton) {
                            startActivity(new Intent(CheckOrder.this, GoToSetup.class));
                        }
                });
                alert.setButton2("No", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                        public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int whichButton) {
                            return;
                        }
                });
                alert.show();   

            }
        }
});

Answer 1

Your class needs to extends Activity, such as

public class MyClass extends Activity{
// ... Your code
}

Answer 2

The error occurs because this is the OnClickListener that you're creating (in the call to checkButton.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener(){), not the parent Activity. If your Activity class is ParentActivity, try this:

AlertDialog alert = new AlertDialog.Builder(ParentActivity.this).create();

Answer 3

I had same problem. Try this one.

AlertDialog.Builder alert = new AlertDialog.Builder(MainActivity.this);