But if you already know ahead of time that the resource name is
"my.package.R.drawable.resname", then you already know what imageID
is, so you wouldn't need that. Or am I misunderstanding what you are
trying to do?
On Apr 6, 6:36 am, Max Binshtok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there a mechanism to dynamically obtain a resource?
>
> I mean, let's say I want to show some image depending on context out
> of 5 images I have in drawable dir.
> So I would expect something like
>
> getResourceByName(String s) : int
>
> which would take a string that points to the resource and will get me
> the int of that resource.
>
> for example, I could do then:
>
> ImageView iv = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.sign_icon);
>
> int imageID
> getResourceByName("my.package.R.drawable.resname");
> iv.setImageResource(imageID);
>
> One way to overcome it would be to hold a hashmap where "resname"
> point to appropriate resource and then use the resname to get it, but
> I think this should be native. Or it is but I can't figure it out.
>
> Thanks for the help!
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