Interestingly, I still get a NullPointException after doing it the way you seuggested... that brings me to my initial concern of incorrectly referencing the layout.
On Nov 12, 7:47 pm, Mark Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > At the moment I get a NullPointerException from my Activity when I do > > the following: > > > RelativeLayout layout = (RelativeLayout) findViewById(R.layout.l1); > > setContent(layout); > > > Is that a wrong way of obtaining a reference of my Layout? > > Try: > > setContentView(R.layout.l1); > > RelativeLayout > container=(RelativeLayout)findViewById(R.id.whatever_you_use_for_id_in_the_XML_file); > > Most of the tutorials for Android will demonstrate getting Buttons or > TextViews or whatever this way out of a loaded layout. Likewise, > RelativeLayout is a widget, so you get a reference to it the same way. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com > > Android Training on the Ranch! -- Mar 16-20, > 2009http://www.bignerdranch.com/schedule.shtml --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
