So how was it that he got this error, and you did not? You did say the API demos all compiled for you "out of the box", didn't you? Yet they were missing this declaration of mTabHost, and the package imports.
On Nov 19, 11:17 pm, Lance Nanek <[email protected]> wrote: > >http://developer.android.com/guide/tutorials/views/hello-tabwidget.html > >mTabHost will not resolve > > That one can be fixed by adding this member variable above the > onCreate function: > private TabHost mTabHost; > > The class will need to be imported as well. The imports above the > class declaration should look like this: > import android.app.TabActivity; > import android.os.Bundle; > import android.widget.TabHost; > > On Nov 18, 6:11 pm, Captain Heff <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The API Demos also work for me, however, they're quite a large and > > unorganised package. As a newbie to both Java and XML, I find tracking > > down the information I need to make my own tabs in that mess quite > > difficult. > > > Instead I have tried to > > use:http://developer.android.com/guide/tutorials/views/hello-tabwidget.html > > - the Android dev guide to using tabs. > > It gives me the error that mTabHost will not resolve. I'm unsure how > > to fix this as I still can't figure out how to create tabs. Hence why > > I'm looking for a simple example about tabs. > > > I also tried two other > > sources:http://jsharkey.org/blog/2008/02/07/using-android-tabhost/ > > I figure that I'm copy pasting his code into the wrong place, because > > it gives all kinds of errors. Some about the XML being wrong, and more > > variable will not resolve errors. > > > The third one I tried was about dynamic tabs, a link I found in this > > site, but that one does not run. > > > On Nov 19, 1:50 am, Lance Nanek <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > The API demos (platforms/android-2.0/samples/ApiDemos in the SDK > > > directory) have 3 different tabs examples and compile and run fine for > > > me. What error are you getting? > > > > On Nov 17, 10:17 pm, Captain Heff <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Every single example of using Tabs - be it the example provided on the > > > > Android dev site, to random samples found through Google - will not > > > > compile in Eclipse, and furthermore, not run in the Android VM. This > > > > makes it insanely hard to actually understand how to use this feature. > > > > > Can anyone give me a quick once-over of how tabs work? -- 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
