On Mar 1, 11:29 am, Alain <aarn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This does not work either, the returned ID is always 0. The items for
> which I am trying to retrieve an ID are in res/values/array.xml and
> defined as:
>
> <string-array name="itemName">
> <item> value1 @ value2 </item>
> <item> value3 @ value3 </item>
> </string-array>
>
> The user would have selected from another string-array one of the
> itemName, the code knows the itemName and I would like to insert it
> into a getResources().getStringArray to retrieve more info on the
> item.
>
> I tried the following with different combination of packageName but
> either crash or return id = 0
> String packageName = "com.coname.appname:itemName";
> int itemsid=getResources().getIdentifier( packageName, null, null);
>
> The version below also returns 0.
> int itemid1 = getIdentifier("R.array."+itemName[listaa_position],
> "array", getPackageName());
>
> Thanks for any pointers.
>
> On Feb 28, 7:04 am, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Alain wrote:
> > > Mark,
>
> > > I tried your suggestion with this code, but this throws an exception.
>
> > > String varName = "R.array."+itemName[listaa_position];
> > > int itemsid=getResources().getIdentifier(varName, null,
> > > getPackageName());
> > > items = getResources().getStringArray(itemsid);
>
> > > The itemName[] are string-array struct in the res/values/arrays.xml
>
> > Try getIdentifier(itemName[...], "array", getPackageName());
>
> > --
> > Mark Murphy (a Commons
> > Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://twitter.com/commonsguy
>
> > Android 2.0 Programming Books:http://commonsware.com/books
did you try:
getIdentifier("itemName", "array", getPackageName()) ?
pskink
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