[android-developers] Re: Setting/Passing values

2010-10-03 Thread rb
The error was caused from the code setting up an instance of the objects in an area that is not active. I just went according to your code in your book. I gather that you looked at my code and determined that it was setup correctly. Since I can't seem to get this to work properly, I have decided

Re: [android-developers] Re: Setting/Passing values

2010-10-01 Thread Mark Murphy
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:34 AM, rb rbs...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the link to your book.  I have tried your examples from it and now I get the app forcing to close. Use adb logcat, DDMS, or the DDMS perspective in Eclipse to examine LogCat and look at the stack trace associated with your

[android-developers] Re: Setting/Passing values

2010-09-30 Thread rb
Thanks for shedding some light on this issue. Here's some of my code: --- Main -- package com.calculator; import android.app.Activity; import android.content.Intent; import android.graphics.Color; import android.os.Bundle; import

Re: [android-developers] Re: Setting/Passing values

2010-09-30 Thread Mark Murphy
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 6:51 PM, rb rbs...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for shedding some light on this issue. Here's some of my code: :: snip :: I was going to save and read the data from a file which would be stored in the phones default applications directory as one file. All the more

[android-developers] Re: Setting/Passing values

2010-09-30 Thread rb
I looked at the URL's that you provided and tried some coding with it, but I am failing to understand the proper coding methods. In the main, I have the options menu as: // options menu // Called only the first time the options menu is displayed. // Create the menu entries.

Re: [android-developers] Re: Setting/Passing values

2010-09-30 Thread Mark Murphy
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 9:15 PM, rb rbs...@gmail.com wrote: I believe that I need this to read the preferences still in the main and set a textview as such:        public void onResume() {                super.onResume();                SharedPreferences prefs=PreferenceManager            

Re: [android-developers] Re: Setting/Passing values

2010-09-30 Thread Mark Murphy
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 9:15 PM, rb rbs...@gmail.com wrote: I looked at the URL's that you provided and tried some coding with it, but I am failing to understand the proper coding methods. BTW, the preference chapter in my book has not changed that much from earlier editions, so you're welcome

[android-developers] Re: Setting/Passing values

2010-09-30 Thread davemac
You should also check out this handy method: PreferenceManager.setDefaultValues(Context context, int resId, boolean readAgain) Assuming you've defined default values for preferences in your preferences.xml file, this method will use those to initialize your saved preferences file. Which means

[android-developers] Re: Setting/Passing values

2010-09-30 Thread rb
Thanks for the link to your book. I have tried your examples from it and now I get the app forcing to close. Perhaps you can shed some light on this? Here's my code: -- Calculator.java-- package com.calculator; import android.app.Activity; import android.content.Intent; import

[android-developers] Re: Setting/Passing values

2010-09-30 Thread rb
Thanks for the handy method. First of all, I have to get this working, then I may try this out. Good thing to know.. :RB On Sep 30, 9:03 pm, davemac davemac...@gmail.com wrote: You should also check out this handy method: PreferenceManager.setDefaultValues(Context context, int resId,