I think I found it......with your suggestion to look at the activity... ((Activity1)getContext()).<some public method in the Activity);
Is this the best way to accomplish what I want? Thanks! Mark On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Mark Phillips <[email protected]>wrote: > My apologies for not being clear. I an very new to android development - > this is my second week of experimenting/reading. > > I assume there is a "pattern" for accessing a view_1 from view_2, where > view_1 is not a child of view_2. Perhaps I am wrong. > > I was thinking that in the constructor of view_2, there is this Context > object. I looked at the api and I don't see anything obvious, but is there > a way through that object to get a handle on the activity so I can call > activity.findViewById() in view_2 to get at view_1? > > Or, is the pattern to create a getter in the activity, which calls > findViewById() for view_1, and then somehow view_2 calls that getter. > Again, not sure how to get a handle to the activity in view_2. > > Thanks, > > Mark > > > On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Mark Murphy <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Mark Phillips >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > How do I get it from my activity? >> >> Call findViewById() on the activity. >> >> -- >> Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) >> http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy >> http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy >> >> _Android Programming Tutorials_ Version 4.0 Available! >> >> -- >> 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
