Holy Mother Dogfood!!! I am quite possibly an idiot (that's the second time I'm saying this today)! Wow. So simple and yet I was looking at it all backward.
Thanks so much. It makes sense now. On Mar 25, 4:34 pm, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > Lovedumplingx wrote: > > So I see the NullPointer Exception as a good starting point but I'm > > still perplexed. > > > I created a new project just for testing. And I can't get this to > > work: > > > package com.test; > > > import android.app.Activity; > > import android.os.Bundle; > > import android.widget.EditText; > > > public class main extends Activity { > > /** Called when the activity is first created. */ > > EditText justFillIn; > > > �...@override > > public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { > > super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); > > > justFillIn = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.ipText); > > justFillIn.setText("charSequence is a string"); > > > setContentView(R.layout.main); > > } > > } > > > All I want to do is set the value for that EditText and it's just not > > working. > > You must call setContentView() first. > > You aren't telling Android what layout to display until you call > setContentView(). Hence, until that time, findViewById() is guaranteed > not to work, because there are no views to find. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com > Android App Developer Books:http://commonsware.com/books.html --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
