Do what the exception says:

"java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: The handle attribute is required
and must refer to a valid child."

You need to define the widget to use as the handle of the drawer.

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Sheepz <eladk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> when adding a slidingDrawer object to my application, i got this error
> when trying to display it on the main.xml layout view
> i used that view to create it as the bottommost component, and
> immediatly got this message in the console window and the layout
> stopped showing.
> here is the exception:
> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: The handle attribute is required
> and must refer to a valid child.
>        at android.widget.SlidingDrawer.<init>(SlidingDrawer.java:203)
>        at android.widget.SlidingDrawer.<init>(SlidingDrawer.java:180)
>        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0
> (Native
> Method)
>        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance
> (Unknown
> Source)
>        at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance
> (Unknown
> Source)
>        at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)
>        at android.view.LayoutInflater.createView(LayoutInflater.java:
> 499)
>        at android.view.BridgeInflater.onCreateView
> (BridgeInflater.java:77)
>        at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag
> (LayoutInflater.java:
> 562)
>        at android.view.BridgeInflater.createViewFromTag
> (BridgeInflater.java:
> 122)
>        at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:
> 617)
>        at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:
> 407)
>        at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:
> 296)
>        at com.android.layoutlib.bridge.Bridge.computeLayout
> (Bridge.java:371)
>        at
> com.android.ide.eclipse.editors.layout.GraphicalLayoutEditor.computeLayout
> (Unknown Source)
>        at
> com.android.ide.eclipse.editors.layout.GraphicalLayoutEditor.recomputeLayout
> (Unknown Source)
>        at com.android.ide.eclipse.editors.layout.GraphicalLayoutEditor
> $2.run
> (Unknown Source)
>        at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.RunnableLock.run(RunnableLock.java:
> 35)
>        at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Synchronizer.runAsyncMessages
> (Synchronizer.java:133)
>        at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runAsyncMessages
> (Display.java:
> 3800)
>        at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch
> (Display.java:3425)
>        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runEventLoop
> (Workbench.java:
> 2384)
>        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runUI(Workbench.java:
> 2348)
>        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.access$4(Workbench.java:
> 2200)
>        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench$5.run(Workbench.java:495)
>        at
> org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault
> (Realm.java:288)
>        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench
> (Workbench.java:490)
>        at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench
> (PlatformUI.java:
> 149)
>        at
> org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.application.IDEApplication.start
> (IDEApplication.java:113)
>        at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.EclipseAppHandle.run
> (EclipseAppHandle.java:193)
>        at
> org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.runApplication
> (EclipseAppLauncher.java:110)
>        at
> org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.start
> (EclipseAppLauncher.java:79)
>        at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run
> (EclipseStarter.java:386)
>        at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run
> (EclipseStarter.java:179)
>        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
>        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
>        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown
> Source)
>        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
>        at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:
> 549)
>        at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:504)
>        at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1236)
> >
>



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