Hi Jim
newbies are very welcome here. as for your email problem you may need
to write to the moderator. i can't help you with q1 and 2 but i will
send you the links for q3 as soon a i get home in about an hour. If
you want to help with the wiki just go to
http://wiki.androidappcheck.com sign up and start posting.
oh and the majority of the group is helpful.
Thanks
On Wednesday, June 1, 2011, Jim Graham <spooky1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 12:03:46AM +0530, Raghav Sood wrote:
>> Anyone who can help?
>
> I'm posting this to the list via e-mail ... but I'm CC'ing you, because
> I'm 99% certain that whoever moderates this group has no intention of
> fixing whatever is keeping me from posting via e-mail..... I AM a
> newbie, after all...not exactly welcome here (at least, to some people;
> others have been helpful---I have yet to figure out who is the majority
> and who is the minority in that department).
>
> Still, I have collected a number of links to both Android and, today,
> Java references/tutorials/examples. I can't promise that they're all
> perfectly organized by where they should be, but the titles should
> help. If you'd like me to, I'll extract them from Mozilla Seamonkey
> on the Windoze side, bring them over here, and e-mail them to you
> directly.
>
> Perhaps a section specifically for newbies? :-) I can certainly help
> with that, at least, when I'm able to find something useful, that is.
>
> I would like to ask a favor, though...something I've asked about, and
> gotten zero responses on. See below the next paragraph for details.
>
> Sounds like a very worthwhile effort. I can certainly vouch for all you
> said about info being incomplete (a cryptic manual without examples is
> just plain cryptic to someone just learning a new language, i.e., Java
> and Android-specific Java), spread far and wide, non-existent, etc.
>
> --------------------------- CUT HERE ---------------------------
>
> Two things. First, I've got an Integer[] array of R.drawable.foo
> pointers to filenames in res/drawable, and an integer index to said
> array. It is defined in a class within my main activity class. I
> also need it in another section of the code for the context menu.
> The blocks of code look like this (bits in-between deleted to keep
> this brief):
>
> public class SNGallery extends Activity {
> [....]
> Gallery g = (Gallery) findViewById(R.id.gallery);
> [....]
> g.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {
> String[] textValues =
> getResources().getStringArray(R.array.Image_Titles);
> public void onItemClick(AdapterView parent, View v, int position,
> long id) {
> final String image_title = textValues[position];
> Toast.makeText(SNGallery.this, image_title,
> Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
>
> [....]
>
> # NOTE: I have the position within the array above ("int position"). I
> # don't have the array itself, and thus far, have had to re-enter it.
> # This cannot possibly be the right way.
>
> // also show context menu for longpress on image
> registerForContextMenu(g);
> }
> @Override
> public void onCreateContextMenu(ContextMenu menu, View v,
> ContextMenuInfo menuInfo) {
> menu.add(R.string.wallpaper);
> menu.add(R.string.info);
> }
>
> @Override
> public boolean onContextItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
> AdapterContextMenuInfo info = (AdapterContextMenuInfo)
> item.getMenuInfo();
> WallpaperManager manager = WallpaperManager.getInstance(this);
>
>
> Integer[] mImageIds = {
> R.drawable.srsound7500,
> R.drawable.boatonsound2ndplace,
> [....]
> R.drawable.smokymountains6,
> R.drawable.koala
> };
> try {
> manager.setResource(mImageIds[info.position]);
> } catch (IOException e) {
> e.printStackTrace();
> }
>
> return true;
> }
> [....]
>
> public class ImageAdapter extends BaseAdapter {
> int mGalleryItemBackground;
> private Context mContext;
>
> public Integer[] mImageIds = {
> R.drawable.srsound7500,
> R.drawable.boatonsound2ndplace,
> [....]
> R.drawable.smokymountains6,
> R.drawable.koala
> };
> [....]
> i.setImageResource(mImageIds[position]);
> i.setLayoutParams(new Gallery.LayoutParams(-1, -1));
> i.setScaleType(ImageView.ScaleType.CENTER_INSIDE);
> i.setBackgroundResource(mGalleryItemBackground);
>
>
>
> --------------------------- CUT HERE ---------------------------
>
> Ok, this code covers both questions.
>
> Question 1: How, without re-writing its definition, can I reference
> mImageIds from the context menu by accessing its variable
> (mImageIds) in the ImageAdapter class?
>
>
> Question 2: Bonus question.... I've already done the description text
> as an array of strings in XML. Is there a way to do that
> with the R.drawable.foo references, too, so that it fits
> into the above code?
>
> Question 3: Can you point me to some *commented* example code that shows
> how to A) resize the image, and B) let the user pick an
> orientation to keep it in (landscape, portrait, or match
> the phone's orientation) before setting it to wallpaper?
>
> I'll help with the links, if you like, regardless of whether or not you
> help me with these, but I would definitely appreciate some help. :-)
>
> Thanks,
> --jim
>
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