Passing it in in the constuctor will work for having an addition
Drawable, but what if I want to determine the one to pick at runtime
and there are many to choose from?

On Jan 13, 11:11 pm, Lance Nanek <[email protected]> wrote:
> Let's say the package name for your app is "com.example". You are
> using a value from the "com.example.R" class. The only values that
> will work with the system resources are from the "android.R" class.
> These values are not the actual content. They are just a value used to
> lookup the actual content.
>
> Have you checked out the MapView tutorial yet? It's 
> here:http://developer.android.com/intl/fr/guide/tutorials/views/hello-mapv...
>
> There's a good example there of passing a Drawable from the Activity
> to an Overlay via means of the constructor.
>
> On Jan 13, 9:50 pm, Eric Crump <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > OK.  I'm not in an Activity though, I'm in the overlay class. You
> > can't call getResources() from there.  Also, I printed the resource id
> > to the log to verify that there is an actual value there.  It matches
> > the one in the R file.
>
> > On Jan 13, 9:47 pm, Lance Nanek <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > I don't see any field named target in android.R.drawable. Are you sure
> > > there is a system drawable resource with that name?
>
> > > If you are using your own package's R class, then you should be using
> > > your activity's resources. They are available via getResources() on
> > > the activity. Resources.getSystem() is for system resources.
>
> > > On Jan 13, 8:59 pm, Eric Crump <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > I'm trying to set a resourse in the onTable method of my map overlay.
> > > > It throws a Resourses$NotFoundException.  I've also tried making it a
> > > > class variable and setting it from the MapView but I get the same
> > > > result.
>
> > > > @Override
> > > > public boolean onTap(GeoPoint gp, MapView mv)
> > > > {
> > > >         OverlayItem item = new OverlayItem(gp, "", "");
> > > >         Drawable  drawable = Resources.getSystem().getDrawable
> > > > (R.drawable.target);
> > > >         item.setMarker(altDrawable);
> > > >         addOverlay(item);
> > > >         return true;
>
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