I'm not sure why this might be considered the "hard way"... Can you elaborate on why it is not easy for you?
In answer to your question; I believe getRootView() would also do what you want: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/View.html#getRootView() Regards, Sean On 5/31/09, westmeadboy <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have one main.xml layout (top level is a LinearLayout) resource and > I inflate this in the usual way within Activity.onCreate(): > > setContentView(R.layout.main); > > Now, I want to get a reference to the corresponding LinearLayout, but > how? > > At the moment I have to add an id attribute to the LinearLayout > defined in the resouce file and then do this: > > LinearLayout mainLayout = (LinearLayout)findViewById(R.id.mainLayout); > > But I'm sure there must be an easier way? > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
