I have been using some nice tutorials on drawing graphics on my
android. I wanted to also add in the cool gesture demo found here:

http://developer.android.com/resources/articles/gestures.html

That takes these lines of code:

GestureOverlayView gestures = (GestureOverlayView)
findViewById(R.id.gestures);
gestures.addOnGesturePerformedListener(this);
This is fine and dandy yet I realize in my demo i'm trying to build
using code from "Playing with Graphics in Android". The demos make
sense, everything makes sense but I found out by using:

setContentView(new Panel(this));
as is required by the Playing With Graphics tutorials, then the
findViewById seems to no longer be valid and returns null. At first I
was about to post a stupider question as to why this is happening, a
quick test of playing with the setContentView made me realize the
cause of findViewById returning null, I just do not know how to remedy
this issue. Whats the key I am missing here? I realize that the new
Panel is doinking some reference up but I am not sure how to make the
connection here.

The: R.id.gestures is defined right int he main.xml as: (just like the
tutorial)

<android.gesture.GestureOverlayView
    android:id="@+id/gestures"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="0dip"
    android:layout_weight="1.0" />
So I did confirm the setContentView(new Panel(this)) is causing the
issue. So I know the issue is that I have to figure out how to add the
android.gesture.GestureOverlayView to the panel class somehow, I am
just not sure how to go about this.

After fighting with this I generally know what I need to do just now
how to do it. I think I need either the equivalent of creating a panel
in that main.xml OR figuring out how to build whats in main.xml for
the gestures in code. I am close because I did this:
GestureOverlayView gestures = new GestureOverlayView(this);

which gets me a non null gestures now, unfortunately since I am not
telling it to fill Parent anywhere I don't think its really showing
up, so I am trying hard to figure out layout pa rams. Am I even on the
right track?

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