Yup, I got it.  The animation was in the wrong resource folder...
needed to create "anim" folder under "res"... so obvious! Thanks!

Ok, hopefully this is the last thing..

On May 1, 7:04 pm, Mark Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> kfealz wrote:
> > Thanks so much!
>
> Happy to help!
>
>
>
> > I'm trying to get an animation working.  I ripped some of the code out
> > of Google's shake sample in the API demos, and I want one of the text
> > fields to "shake" under a certain condition (when invalid username/
> > password are entered).
>
> > So, I added:
>
> >               Animation shake = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(this,
> > R.anim.shake);
> >                  findViewById(R.id.password).startAnimation(shake);
>
> > Eclipse gives me the error: "R.anim cannot be resolved".
> > I'm not sure exactly where R.anim are coming from.. I've been looking
> > around, but can't find anything that would suggest why it wouldn't be
> > resolved.
> > I found class information 
> > here:http://code.google.com/android/reference/android/R.anim.html
> > , but it doesn't seem like I should need to import anything additional
> > to make it be recognized (aside from android.view.animation.Animation
> > and android.view.animation.AnimationUtils, which I am already
> > importing).
>
> Only a guess or two. I haven't played with animations, and I don't use
> Eclipse.
>
> Generally speaking, the R class comes from the resource compilation
> step. R.java gets rebuilt by the resource compiler before you compile
> (javac) the whole app. So, either the resource compiler hasn't been run
> yet since you added your animation (in which case just try compiling and
> see if it works), or it has been run and it's not picking up your
> animation for some reason (e.g., wrong filename, wrong resource folder,
> got eaten by a grue).
>
> --
> Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com
> The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development -- coming in June 2008!
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