Huh, Never thought of that. I have my two arrays and I can get the position id of the selected value and just do cityCodes.get(selectedID).
I come from Web developement and I'm used to JavaScript's methods with the <select> element in HTML. Thanks Beth. It worked. On Sep 4, 4:46 pm, Beth <emez...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Alex, > It sounds like you might be making a simple thing complicated. You > want to use two parallel arrays, one array for the keys that display > in the spinner and the second array for the numerical values when one > of the keys is selected. Put the keys and values in the correct order > so the index will match up. Maybe I misunderstand but it seems like a > straightforward case where you can access the correct value by reading > the position from the spinner key when there is a click event on the > spinner. > > With regards to your request for information on layouts... I found > this web page with a bunch of the layouts from Android 1.5 to be very > helpful:http://svn.jetbrains.org/idea/BRANCHES/MaiaM1/bundled/android/testDat... > > Regards, > Beth > > On Sep 3, 6:56 am, Justin Anderson <janderson....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I haven't tried using the spinner adapter yet, so I'm not sure, but it might > > be possible to do the following: > > > - Create a new object that holds both the city string and the number > > - Override the toString() method to return the city string > > - Pass the array of your new object type to the spinner > > - Then the spinner would return your object and you can get the number value > > from that > > > Again, I don't know how the spinner adapter is set up exactly, but you might > > be able to get something like this to work. > > > Hope that helps, > > Justin > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > There are only 10 types of people in the world... > > Those who know binary and those who don't. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 3:48 AM, AlexDemers <demers.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Anyone knows how to? Am I being clear? > > > > On Aug 20, 8:48 pm, AlexDemers <demers.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hey, I was wondering how to put a string array in a spinner (I can, > > > > using the ArrayAdapter) but I also want to set keys for these also. > > > > But it seems that there's no constructors for that (I may be > > > > mistaken). > > > > > I have 2 arrays: {"5123", "7434", "7333", "7345" } and {"City 1", > > > > "City 2", "City 3", "City 4" }. Obviously, the spinner UI should show > > > > the name array of the cities, but in the backend (what's returned from > > > > the submission of the form is the value. > > > > > Anyone knows how? > > > > > // Put the array in the spinner > > > > ArrayAdapter<String> adapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, > > > > android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item, cityNames); > > > > spinCities.setAdapter(adapter); > > > > > While, I'm the subject of spinners: is there any resource on the > > > > internet describing every type of spinner layouts? I'm using > > > > simple_spinner_item but I find it too small. Any suggestions? > > > > > Thanks. > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
