No problem.  Glad you got it solved!

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On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 2:02 PM, nimusi <nimus...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks, Justin, that has solved the problem.
>
> On 27 July, 22:00, Justin Anderson <janderson....@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Use startActivityForResult instead of startActivity.  Then when you get
> back
> > to the listView you can add the item and update there.  There are some
> very
> > specific things you need to do to get startActivityForResult to work
> > properly and return the stuff you want to return to the main activity, so
> > you may want to search StackOverflow and this group for
> > startActivityForResult...
> >
> > Hope that helps,
> > Justin
> >
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> > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 2:35 PM, nimusi <nimus...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I have an app in which the main activity is a listview.  Clicking on
> > > an item in the list item opens a new activity which is a detail view
> > > of that item.  The detail view has navigate buttons which traverse
> > > through the list displaying details for the currently selected item.
> > > This is working as expected.
> >
> > > Users need to be able to add, edit and delete items.  In the main
> > > activity I have an 'Add Item' menu item which allows the user to add
> > > an item.  The detail view has an 'Add Item' button.
> >
> > > I thought I would be able to reuse the code for both cases by opening
> > > a dialog in a helper class which accepts a new item and updates the
> > > list view (and also the detail view if that was where it was called
> > > from).  This is raising an Exception 'The content of the adapter has
> > > changed but ListView did not receive a notification'.
> >
> > > Having googled this I am told that I cannot update the UI thread in a
> > > sub-thread.  Does this mean that I have to replicate the add item code
> > > in each activity? Or am I going about this in the wrong way and I
> > > should be doing something else.
> >
> > > NiMuSi
> > >http://www.nimusi.net/blog
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