Thanks No I only have a single landscape layout. The biggest baffle is that is works and then does not work
All I do is re-type the findViewByID part and in the layout xml re-type the android:id line and 95% that fixes it. But this case where it does and does not work, while I am working on another section is frustrating to say the least Thanks again On Mar 25, 2011, at 3:13 PM, B Lyon wrote: > Not sure if it applies in your case, but do you have a separate > layouts for landscape and portrait and that view is defined in only > one of them? I think the eclipse android plugin might not catch this > kind of thing, and so you wouldn't find out until runtime that it > wasn't in both layouts. > > > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 2:56 PM, New Developer <secur...@isscp.com> wrote: >> >> Sometimes not always the following line >> final ExpandableListView menuView = (ExpandableListView) >> findViewById(R.id.menuListing); >> may or may not return null and thus aborts with a NullExceptionError >> Any ideas how to fix this permanently to always return a valid >> thanks in advance >> >> -- >> 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 >> android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > -- > 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 > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- 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 android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en