The context issue was my problem and now it can open the file....and it turns out the file is too big anyways:
Data exceeds UNCOMPRESS_DATA_MAX (1582245 vs 1048576) I can't win. Kelsey On Oct 6, 9:53 pm, "Xavier Ducrohet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To access your resource you need to get a reference to the > android.content.res.Resources object for your application. > > To do this, you can call getResources() on any object extending > android.content.ContextWrapper (Activity, Service, Context, or > Application for instance). > > A context is necessary because you could have several version of your > resources (based on phone configuration such as orientation, language, > etc...). > > Resources.getSystem() does not work because it gives you the system > resources, not your application resources. > > Xav > > On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 6:42 PM, kelseywright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > No, that is the name of the project I am working on and I am trying to > > access the resource from within that package. And it seems to me it > > should be trivial....that is why I am so frustrated trying to figure > > out what is going on. Nothing worse than something that should work > > easily not working at all. > > > Basically the code I have written for Android is in that package, and > > then I have a lot of support code in other packages, but that is the > > package that I am trying to access it from, that is the package where > > the file I want does appear in the R file, that is the package with my > > receiver, and that is the package I declared in my manifest. > > > Kelsey > > > On Oct 6, 9:23 pm, Steve Oldmeadow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Oct 7, 1:07 am, kelseywright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > com.l1ghtm4n.text2speech.R <- this is the one I was importing as > >> > it contains the raw.myfilename for the file I am trying to open. This > >> > R file does include the line "package com.l1ghtm4n.text2speech;". > > >> Is com.l1ghtm4n.text2speech your project? It sounds like you are > >> trying to import the resources from another project. If so that is a > >> bit trickier than just opening a raw resource and you should have > >> mentioned that initially. I suggest breaking the problem down. First > >> try to open a resource from your own project by importing the R file > >> for your project and make sure your R file is not in the default > >> package. > > >> As Peter has indicated, using resources is normally trivial. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
