On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Keith Wiley <[email protected]> wrote: > I have determined the discrepancy. Your code calls getSelectedItem() > on the spinner. Mine calls getSelectedTextView(). In your case, you > get a non-null response regardless of the visible status. In mine, I > get a null if it is initially gone, but I get a TextView if it is > initially visible. Furthermore, if I toggle the spinner's visibility > from gone to visible, I get a non-null response, AND if I toggle > twice, thus hiding the spinner again, I still get a nonnull response.
Right. If an AdapterView is hidden, it is not querying the Adapter for any rows/cells/whatever, and so you'll get null for getSelectedView(). This is a perfectly reasonable optimization, IMHO. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android 3.0 Programming Books: http://commonsware.com/books -- 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
