Shouldn't your code read: descriptions[photoindex]? Thanks, Justin Anderson MagouyaWare Developer http://sites.google.com/site/magouyaware
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Spooky <[email protected]> wrote: > New question.... > > I'm trying to access an array of text strings by its integer index (at > laest, I think that's what I'm trying to do!). > > The array is defined as (it's actually longer than this---this is the > shortened version): > > String[] descriptions = {"Santa Rosa Sound (NW FL)", > "Sailboat on SR Sound", "SR Sound Sunset #1", > "SR Sound Sunset #2", "SR Sound Sunset #3", > "SR Sound Sunset #4", "NW FL Sunset", > "SR Sound from Okaloosa Island", "Beaches on the > Island" ); > > and I'm trying to use it, just a few lines later, like this > (indentation > shortened here): > > TextView statusText = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.status_text); > statusText.setText(String.format("%s", > descriptions(photoIndex))); > > I also tried this: > > TextView statusText = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.status_text); > statusText.setText(descriptions(photoIndex)); > > Eclipse insists on including an Object definition which merely > returns null. I tried editing it to return descriptions(photoIndex), > and it Force Closed every time I tried to run it. Obviously not the > right way to do this. > > I *THINK* I'm following what an example shows to do, but I either get > null or a Force Close. The example is at: > > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4986786/using-string-array-list-length-as-an-integer > > What I'm trying to do is access the descriptions array by the same > index that the photo being loaded onto the screen is using. The idea > here is to replace the "1/39" with "Santa Rosa Sound (NW FL)"..... > > Can anyone either let me know what I'm doing wrong, or point me to the > appropriate FM that will show me how I *SHOULD* be doing it? :-) > > -------------------------------- > > Another question regarding image dimensions. This app will be > ad-supported, and in landscape mode, some of the photos take up the > entire screen on my Android. Will that block ads from being seen? > Or is the container for this app reduced by the ads, thus reducing the > parent to be filled by the photo to begin with? > > Thanks, > --jim > > PS: Last newbie question from me today...follow-ups to this, yes, but > another newbie question, not today...... If I get this working, I'm > done > for the day. Then tomorrow, it's just cleaning up the screen...easy > stuff. > > -- > 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
