Apology definitely accepted. Just to illustrate the difficulty -- and why I don't fault you for failing to be clear:
None off my car radios EVER had lights that lit up for the buttons. They had buttons that would stay depressed. To set a station, you'd tune to the station, and then PULL OUT the button, and press it back in. So I think the buttons don't light up, they depress. I think they light up when they are selected, because that's what it looks like. But I don't think ever seen "lit up" in this context, just depressed. To really, seriously add to the confusion, the layout you said you were using doesn't use a radio button at all! It uses a CheckedTextView. That didn't really affect your question or answer, but it sure added to the uncertainty in trying to disambiguate. (And you can see how "checked" makes more sense as the terminology, when you consider it as being generic across this category of widget types). It's a wonder people manage to communicate at all, sometimes. We think we speak the same language, but we're not even on the same planet! On Apr 8, 9:16 am, DonFrench <dcfre...@gmail.com> wrote: > FWIW, I used the light metaphor because that is exactly what a radio > button group is supposed to portray: a set of buttons on a old-style > car radio that have lights behind them that illuminate when you press > them (as well as change the station). > It turns out > that the term in Android for "lighting up" a radio button is "check", > which is a violation of the radio button metaphor. And since the one > thing that I wanted to do but could not was to create the visual > effect of lighting up a radio button, the term "check" would have been > inappropriate in that context. > > So anyway, the answer to the question as to how does one light up a > specific radio button is to use: > getListView().setItemChecked(mClickedItem, true); > > Again, sorry to have upset you and Bob. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
