Thank you, I'll give it a try.
On Jan 28, 9:05 pm, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote:
> steele johnson wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I'm interested in instantiating a LinearLayout object from an xml file
> > that has a LinearLayout file configuration. I want to do this within a
> > method of my Activity.
>
> > I tried findViewById() but that returned null. I've made sure that the
> > LinearLayout id is the one I'm passing. Note that this layout isn't
> > part of my screen, it's stand-alone, so I want to build a LinearLayout
> > object from the xml.
>
> If you are starting from a layout XML and you want to create a brand-new
> View tree based on that layout (e.g., LinearLayout containing other
> widgets), that's called "view inflation" or "layout inflation".
>
> getLayoutInflater().inflate() should do the trick. This uses the
> android.view.LayoutInflater class.
>
> You can see inflation used in many of my Fancy ListViews posts:
>
> http://androidguys.com/?s=fancy+listviews
>
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> Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com
>
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