My mistake, there is a getter for mSelectedPosition, still think it
would be nice if the scope was protected for this and others , it
could then be accessed directly by custom classes that extend base
classes such as AbsSpinner, as the Gallery class does..

On Nov 30, 9:01 pm, Taf <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was just trying to extend the AbsSpinner Class, to create my own
> custom widget. But the problem is that some of the member variables
> have a a default scope, so I can't access them just by extending the
> class (they can only be access directly by classes in the same
> package). Some are ok as they have getters and setters , but there is
> the odd  member variable that doesn't , so i simply can't access them
> because my new custom widget in not in the same package. An example of
> such a member variable is mSelectedPosition   in AdapterView.
>
> Would it not be better if these vars were to have a protected scope
> rather than the default scope, it would then be easier to extend these
> classes to make custom widgets outside of the package of these
> classes.

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