Oh, well, thanks for your response anyway. But I am going to wait in the hopes that some who unlike us, it not a newbie, can come up with a suggestion that is not one of our newbie kludges;)
On Feb 1, 4:16 pm, "Ben & Jerry's South Bay" <[email protected]> wrote: > It was a bit kludgie...but for me as a newbie to eclipse...it was not to > painful :-). > > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Indicator Veritatis <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > And switching back to 1.5 usually works for me. But both your approach > > and mind sound like kludges. There should be a better solution. I > > really do not want, for example, to have to create this extra > > directory for EVERY tutorial I complete using SDK 2.1. Do you? > > > On Feb 1, 3:01 pm, "Ben & Jerry's South Bay" <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > I just created a new folder within eclipse called 'drawable' and then > > > created my new files there. It worked for me. > > > > On Feb 1, 2010 12:18 PM, "Indicator Veritatis" <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > It seems the online tutorials have not been rewritten to reflect > > > Android 2.1. For they still refer to 'drawable' and 'res/drawable', > > > but when I create a new project for 2.1 using the wizard, I do not GET > > > any such directory. Instead, I get 'res/drawable-hdpi', 'res/drawable- > > > ldpi' and 'res/drawable-mdpi'. > > > > Now for some tutorials, I have been able to get by by putting files in > > > 'res/drawable-hdpi'. But for the TabLayout tutorial, > >http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/views/hello-tabwidge..., > > > this does not work. I still get the error message (on completion of > > > step 3) "R.drawable.ic_tab_artists cannot be resolved". > > > > The files "ic_tab_artists_grey.png" and "ic_tab_artists_whit.png" > > > really are in res/drawable-hdpi. > > > > I also tried changing the name 'drawable' to 'drawable-hdpi', but Java > > > did not like the '-' in the name (no surprise). > > > > So how are we supposed to get this to work? Go back to 1.5? Surely > > > there is a better way. > > > > Just for clarity's sake, the line of code I get the error on is: spec > > > = tabHost.newTabSpec("artists").setIndicator("Artists", > > > // res.getDrawable > > > (R.drawable.ic_tab_artists)) > > > .setContent(intent); > > > > in HelloTabWidget.java. > > > > I get the same class of error message on the other three > > > res.getDrawable calls, too. > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > Groups "Android Beginners" group. > > > > NEW! Try asking and tagging your question on Stack Overflow athttp:// > > stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected]<android-beginners%2Bunsubscr > > > [email protected]><android-beginners%2Bunsubscr > > [email protected]> > > > For more options, visit this group athttp:// > > groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Android Beginners" group. > > > NEW! Try asking and tagging your question on Stack Overflow at > >http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<android-beginners%2Bunsubscr > > [email protected]> > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. NEW! Try asking and tagging your question on Stack Overflow at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android 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
