I can't set it after inflate because I'm trying to access it in the constructor.
I did try setting it in xml, but I only get null back (may be a bug, but I haven't investigated that). - Brill Pappin Sent from my Android device Brad Gies <[email protected]> wrote: > >Can't you just set the tag when you inflate it? Or set the tag in the >.xml file? > >Sincerely, > >Brad Gies >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >Bistro Bot - Bistro Blurb >http://bgies.com http://nocrappyapps.com >http://bistroblurb.com http://forcethetruth.com >http://ihottonight.com >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >Everything in moderation, including abstinence (paraphrased) > >Every person is born with a brain... Those who use it well are the successful >happy ones - Brad Gies > >Adversity can make or break you... It's your choice... Choose wisely - Brad >Gies > >Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can >change the world. Indeed. It is the only thing that ever has - Margaret Mead > > >On 13/01/2011 10:28 AM, Brill Pappin wrote: >> Ok, this is the same problem as my last post, but i'm not getting any >> traction with it, so i'm looking for another method solve the problem. >> >> All i need to do is identify the xml resource a view was inflated >> from, in the views constructor. >> >> I've tried android:tag which does not seem to be able to do it in this >> case (I only ever get null back from getTag()). >> >> The situation is that I have a single java class extending view. >> I inflate one of many XMLs into the view and I need to be able to >> change stylesheets based upon which xml resource i'm loading. >> >> Does anyway one a method of doing this? >> >> My last fallback is to use some sort of static class that I can set >> the xml resource on for the entire app, then try and look at the id to >> determine which resource I loaded. I'm reluctant to do that because >> it's kludgy and I think its far more likely to introduce bug etc. Note >> that I haven't tried to do this yet, but it should work based on how >> java behaves. >> >> I just can't believe that there is no way to a view to know what XML >> resource it was inflated from! >> >> - Brill Pappin >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Android Developers" 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-developers?hl=en > >-- >You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >Groups "Android Developers" 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-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" 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-developers?hl=en

