The problem was in my widget, I had the correct constructor (Context
context AttributeSet attr); HOWEVER - super(context) was being called
- not super(context, attr). Once I fixed that, life was better.

On Sep 15, 3:21 am, bob <b...@coolgroups.com> wrote:
> Actually, this is returning null:
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> StatsTable st = (StatsTable) findViewById(R.id.hello);
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> Any idea why?
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> On Sep 14, 7:24 pm, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote:
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> > If StatsTable is in the com.coolgroups.bob package, you would use:
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> > <com.coolgroups.bob.StatsTable android:id="@+id/hello" ... />
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> > Note that you would need a different (additional) constructor, one
> > that takes an AttributeSet as the second parameter. See my ColorMixer
> > custom widget:
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> >https://github.com/commonsguy/cwac-colormixer
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> > On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 8:21 PM, bob <b...@coolgroups.com> wrote:
> > > So, I created my own View subclass like this:
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> > > public class StatsTable extends View {
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> > >        public StatsTable(Context context) {
> > >                super(context);
> > >                // TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
> > >        }
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> > >        @Override
> > >        public void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
> > >                canvas.drawARGB(255, 1, 0, 0);
> > >        }
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> > > }
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> > > Anyone know what I have to do to reference this in my layout XML?
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