If you go back to you tutorial link, bottom half of step 3. It tells you to make the drawbale directory and to put fome files in it.
Also, it is best to program to the lowest sdk version possible. All sdks. Are backwards compatable (somethiing made for 1.5 will work on 2.1. However something made for 2.1 won't work on 1.5) although you can/should test in your 2.1 emulator. Hope that helps, -Kitzy On Feb 1, 11:14 pm, Indicator Veritatis <mej1...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Oh, well, thanks for your response anyway. But I am going to wait in > the hopes that some who unlike us, it not a newbie, can come up with a > suggestion that is not one of our newbie kludges;) > > On Feb 1, 4:16 pm, "Ben & Jerry's South Bay" <mochama...@gmail.com> > wrote:> It was a bit kludgie...but for me as a newbie to eclipse...it was not > to > > painful :-). > > > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Indicator Veritatis > > <mej1...@yahoo.com>wrote: > > > > And switching back to 1.5 usually works for me. But both your approach > > > and mind sound like kludges. There should be a better solution. I > > > really do not want, for example, to have to create this extra > > > directory for EVERY tutorial I complete using SDK 2.1. Do you? > > > > On Feb 1, 3:01 pm, "Ben & Jerry's South Bay" <mochama...@gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > I just created a new folder within eclipse called 'drawable' and then > > > > created my new files there. It worked for me. > > > > > On Feb 1, 2010 12:18 PM, "Indicator Veritatis" <mej1...@yahoo.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > It seems the online tutorials have not been rewritten to reflect > > > > Android 2.1. For they still refer to 'drawable' and 'res/drawable', > > > > but when I create a new project for 2.1 using the wizard, I do not GET > > > > any such directory. Instead, I get 'res/drawable-hdpi', 'res/drawable- > > > > ldpi' and 'res/drawable-mdpi'. > > > > > Now for some tutorials, I have been able to get by by putting files in > > > > 'res/drawable-hdpi'. But for the TabLayout tutorial, > > >http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/views/hello-tabwidge..., > > > > this does not work. I still get the error message (on completion of > > > > step 3) "R.drawable.ic_tab_artists cannot be resolved". > > > > > The files "ic_tab_artists_grey.png" and "ic_tab_artists_whit.png" > > > > really are in res/drawable-hdpi. > > > > > I also tried changing the name 'drawable' to 'drawable-hdpi', but Java > > > > did not like the '-' in the name (no surprise). > > > > > So how are we supposed to get this to work? Go back to 1.5? Surely > > > > there is a better way. > > > > > Just for clarity's sake, the line of code I get the error on is: spec > > > > = tabHost.newTabSpec("artists").setIndicator("Artists", > > > > // res.getDrawable > > > > (R.drawable.ic_tab_artists)) > > > > .setContent(intent); > > > > > in HelloTabWidget.java. > > > > > I get the same class of error message on the other three > > > > res.getDrawable calls, too. > > > > > -- > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > > Groups "Android Beginners" group. > > > > > NEW! Try asking and tagging your question on Stack Overflow athttp:// > > > stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android > > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > > android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<android-beginners%2Bunsubscr > > > > i...@googlegroups.com><android-beginners%2Bunsubscr > > > i...@googlegroups.com> > > > > For more options, visit this group athttp:// > > > groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > Groups "Android Beginners" group. > > > > NEW! Try asking and tagging your question on Stack Overflow at > > >http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<android-beginners%2Bunsubscr > > > i...@googlegroups.com> > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. NEW! Try asking and tagging your question on Stack Overflow at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en
