Re: [android-developers] EditText without initial keyboard

2012-09-13 Thread Ravin
Okay thanks for that info Harri. I managed to get it to work using the focus method so I did not end up having to investigate your method. On Wednesday, September 12, 2012 10:22:04 AM UTC-7, Harri Smått wrote: On Sep 12, 2012, at 7:51 PM, Ravin rper...@yahoo.com javascript: wrote: Does

[android-developers] EditText without initial keyboard

2012-09-12 Thread Ravin
Does anyone know how to configure an EditText object so that when it is created it does not show the keyboard until I tap on the text field. Right now the keyboard shows up right away on creation. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers

Re: [android-developers] EditText without initial keyboard

2012-09-12 Thread Ravin
Okay thanks - I will try that. btw I have your books and have found them well written and very useful for anyone learning Android development. On Wednesday, September 12, 2012 9:57:49 AM UTC-7, Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) wrote: On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Ravin rper...@yahoo.com

Re: [android-developers] Re: Getting pointer to current activity

2012-09-10 Thread Ravin
your Activity, if not, then just send it a message to do so, you're within another window (i.e. dialog?), that seems rather hackish, a better way might be to change it on the dialog's closing.. kris On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 11:54 PM, Ravin rper...@yahoo.com javascript: wrote: I want

[android-developers] Getting pointer to current activity

2012-09-09 Thread Ravin
Is there some way to get the current activity from within a child window. I'm sure there is but I cannot seem to find a method in the documentation. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to

[android-developers] Re: Getting pointer to current activity

2012-09-09 Thread Ravin
I want to remove the current view and replace with another view. I was planning to use setContentView() to do that but in order to do so I need to access the underlying activity object. Is there another way to achieve this? On Sunday, September 9, 2012 7:16:08 PM UTC-7, Ravin wrote

Re: [android-developers] Re: wife manager in android

2012-09-06 Thread Ravin
LOL. I mus admit I was curious when I opened this up. But sadly since we see he is only talking about Wifi I can help out with that as I had written an app for receiving video multicast over Wifi. Here is the code snippet for the Wifi manager. static WifiManager wifimanager;

[android-developers] Adding Icons in ListView

2012-09-04 Thread Ravin
I’m having some difficulty laying out a couple of ImageView objects within a ListView. The idea is to lay them out next to the text. The method I’m using is to override the getView method within the related adapter class for the ListView. I’m casting the view returned from the parent as a

Re: [android-developers] Adding Icons in ListView

2012-09-04 Thread Ravin
Thanks for the replies. I will try what laminina has suggested. No I'm not opposed to specifying the layout in XML - I guess since any s/w I have written in the past for other GUI based systems such as WIndows has been based on instantiating objects at runtime I have been avoiding the XML

Re: [android-developers] Adding Icons in ListView

2012-09-04 Thread Ravin
, Justin Anderson MagouyaWare Developer http://sites.google.com/site/magouyaware On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Ravin rper...@yahoo.com javascript:wrote: Thanks for the replies. I will try what laminina has suggested. No I'm not opposed to specifying the layout in XML - I guess since any

[android-developers] Nexus 7 device not being detected by Eclipse

2012-09-03 Thread Ravin
I'm developing an app and using a Nexus 7 device for debugging. I'm unable to see the device in the AVD when plugged in. Some research online suggested it could be the driver so I downloaded what looks like the latest driver from the ASUS website and when I try to change the driver to that one

[android-developers] Re: Nexus 7 device not being detected by Eclipse

2012-09-03 Thread Ravin
Thanks Chris. I did realize that I had to do after seeing your post since I did this a while back when I was writing and debugging an app on an ASUS transformer. Having said that I made the change as well as set the debug attribute to true in the Android manifest file but I still cannot

[android-developers] Re: Nexus 7 device not being detected by Eclipse

2012-09-03 Thread Ravin
Right after I posted the previous message I got the device to work. After rebooting the PC I went into the device manager and saw that there was no driver for the Nexus 7. This allowed me to select the driver I had downloaded from the ASUS website and I now can see and load the app for