Btw each listview element is bound to two textviews. So I won't be able to cast the view of the selected item as a textview.
Do you know of a good way to get the text of the selected listview element (when someone presses a menu option or button) On Apr 13, 6:16 pm, Ram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks snowdrifter, I need capture the text of the selected listview > entry (when someone presses a menu option or a button) > > Incidentally the notepad tutorial does an extra query to get the db > value from the selected _id. > However, this seems like a wasteful operation (since the value is > already available in the selected listview element) and I'm hoping > that there is an easy to get the text of the selected listview entry. > > On Apr 13, 5:55 pm, SnowDrifter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > If you are using onListItemClick it will give you the ListView for > > that selected item which you can access as a view if you cast it to > > whatever view you are using or use the id passed to index into your > > cursor and get the data out. > > > TextView text = (TextView)(l.getChildAt(position)); > > > On Apr 13, 4:58 pm, Ram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, I'm using a simplecursoradapter to map a db cursor to a listview > > > > The listview displays "n" rows for "n" rows in the cursor. > > > > When the user selects a listview entry, I can use > > > listview.getSelectedItemId() to get the "_id" value of the selected > > > entry. > > > > However, I couldn't find an api to get the text of the selected > > > listview element. > > > This seems like a fairly easy thing to do, but I'm not sure what I'm > > > overlooking here. > > > > Does anyone know how to get the text displayed by the selected > > > listview item.- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Announcing the new M5 SDK! http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/02/android-sdk-m5-rc14-now-available.html For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
