Ah, something I missed before...
To get the text out of your EditText view, you want to do this:
String TESTSTRING = bodyText.getText();
The String() class does not accept EditText objects, you need to
retrieve the string that is contained inside your bodyText object.
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Sean Hodges
<seanhodge...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> The problem is that you are referencing a non-final variable
> ("bodyText") that is outside the scope of your View.OnClickListener()
> inner class.
>
> You need to make bodyText final, so that it can be accessed from
> inside your anonymous inner class. You do not need to make TESTSTRING
> final, though doing so should do no harm (unless later on you try to
> re-assign it to another string).
>
> Your code should end up looking something like this:
> http://pastebin.com/f4895dad4
>
> Make sure you are familiar with the concepts of the final keyword. It
> is important to understand how it affects the variables you apply it
> to. In particular, take a look at the "Anonymous Inner Classes"
> section on this article:
> http://renaud.waldura.com/doc/java/final-keyword.shtml#vars.
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 5:14 PM, André <pha...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> I tried that now but get the same problem.
>>
>> here is a screen shot of it:
>>
>> http://www.andreborud.com/android/android-problem-2.jpg
>>
>> André
>>
>> On Jan 27, 5:39 pm, Justin Anderson <janderson....@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Why are you using the final keyword? I think that is the source of your
>>> problem. Remove that and I would be that everything will work out.
>>>
>>> In java, "final" is more-or-less equivalent to "const" in c++. Since you
>>> are setting this variable every time a button is clicked I don't think you
>>> want to set this to final.
>>>
>>> I am curious though... what exactly is the error that you are getting?
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:26 AM, André <pha...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Hello,
>>>
>>> > I'm sure there has been a lot of questions like this here already. But
>>> > I haven't been able to find an answer to my question is. I'm still
>>> > very new to this so it's probably something very simple.
>>> > What I am trying is to save text from a edittext window, it works fine
>>> > if I have a pre-written text. Any suggestion on how I should make this
>>> > work?
>>>
>>> > Bellow you can see what I have tried! The row with the stars is what
>>> > eclipse doesn't accept.
>>>
>>> > private EditText bodyText;
>>>
>>> > �...@override
>>> > public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
>>> > super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
>>> > setContentView(R.layout.main);
>>>
>>> > bodyText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.body);
>>> > Button confirmButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.confirm);
>>> > confirmButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
>>>
>>> > public void onClick(View view) {
>>> > try {
>>> > final String TESTSTRING = new String(bodyText);
>>>
>>> > ***************************************************************************
>>> > *****
>>>
>>> > FileOutputStream fOut =
>>> > openFileOutput("samplefile.txt",
>>> > MODE_WORLD_READABLE);
>>> > OutputStreamWriter osw = new
>>> > OutputStreamWriter(fOut);
>>>
>>> > osw.write(TESTSTRING);
>>>
>>> > osw.flush();
>>> > osw.close();
>>>
>>> > } catch (IOException ioe) {
>>> > ioe.printStackTrace();
>>> > }
>>> > }
>>>
>>> > });
>>> > }
>>> > }
>>>
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