Android - Something Odd... Question

Something odd is going on, I think...

I have menu with sub-menu items. One sub-menu gets GPS location, does some calc's and updates two display fields. No problems.

The other sub-menu takes user input and does calc's BUT, it uses the same display stuff as the fist sub-menu but, won't update the two fields with the new input for display. I have a second display just to see whats going on and this display does update the two fields correctly.

There are no differences between these displays (declarations, parameters or values) HOWEVER, and here's the lead-up to the odd thing, I got a warning when setting the display for the two fields (for displaying in the second sub-menu) and used a suggestion from the pop-up.

The suggestion was to make the TextView static. I clicked it for one (left the other as-is for trial and commented it). The warning went away but, crash! at run time.

So, here's the odd thing: Nowhere do I see anything that makes this TextView static! All related declarations and ref's to it are identical to the one I didn't make static. In fact, I tried to manually make the second one static but couldn't. I also checked the R.java file but nothing related in there...

Fortunately, I was able to use 'Undo' the Make-it-static.

Any comment/clarification for my education? Thanks

No, I guess I wasn't clear - there is no 'static' in the TextView declaration - the declaration/initializations for both are identical - it's as if there's a hidden tag...

headscratch 2010-08-26 22:02:31

You're probably looking at the wrong version of your code. Save and refresh

Falmarri 2010-08-26 22:11:01

Oh, forgot, there are 1,000 lines of code and I'm pretty sure I can figure out how to do what's needed for fixing the display (hope I didn't just jinx myself) - my question is really more of curiosity re the odd thing.

headscratch 2010-08-26 22:11:30

FALMARRI - thanks. I've been burned too many times by that one! And, pretty do a save/clean upon every change...Actully, I fixed the display update thing... thanks, everyone.

headscratch 2010-08-26 22:17:17

Though I'm making progress on the 'why' it isn't displaying (it's being over written - I'll fix it), I'm still bugged by the Static thing. Here's the two declarations: latOut = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.TextView10); longOut = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.TextView11);As, you can see, there is not "static" in the signature. It's the latOut that has static associated with it (from clicking suggestion). I searched the entire project for static, none appear in association with latOut. I'm puzzled. And, the longOut, is waiting for me to accept the static suggestion... go figure!

headscratch 2010-08-26 23:00:58

FYI - Even though I cleaned the project and refreshed it, static did not show up until I exited Eclipse IDE and restarted it. Now, it shows up in a separate declaration for TextView... and IDE bug...

headscratch 2010-08-26 23:21:12

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