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findViewById for dynamically added View

Is it possible to find the added TextView to update it with other options.
I am adding by this code new TextView with a Button. Now, I want also set a onClickListerner for the dynamically added TextViews. For this I have to find them with findViewById method. But they aren't createt yet.
Can I make this in a other way and if yes, How?
Button hinzufügenButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.hinzufügen_Button);
hinzufügenButton.setOnClickListener(new Button.OnClickListener() {
public void onClick (View view){
EditText tischName = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.tisch_name_EditText);
TextView tisch = new TextView(getApplicationContext());
tisch.setText(tischName.getText());
tisch.setAllCaps(true);
tisch.setLayoutParams(new ViewGroup.LayoutParams(ViewGroup.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, ViewGroup.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT));
tisch.setBackgroundColor(Color.parseColor("#9FA8DA"));
tisch.setTextSize(25);
tisch.setId(id);
id++;
LinearLayout tischeAnzeigen = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.tische_LinearLayout);
tischeAnzeigen.addView(tisch);
}
});

Just add the onClickListener as you create your dynamic views
Example:
...
tisch.setId(id);
tisch.setOnClickListener(yourListener);
...

You can use setId to add an id. But you probably don't need to. If you're creating a view dynamically, you have a reference to it when you create it. Just set it on that reference. No need to find it.

Android Development - Create a menu with 3 imageButtons

First of all english is not my first language but i will try my best.
Also... i am pretty sure my title choice was not the best so sorry for that.
Basically what i wanted to do is a menu with three ImageButtons but there is a tricky part (tricky for me at least) since every time i press one button that same button changes image (to a colored version instead of a grayed out image) and the other two change as well from colored version of their respective images to grayed out ones, actually only one of the other two will change since the purpose of this is to be able to activate only one at a time so it would not be possible to have the other two active at the same time.
Notice that this is not a menu on the top right corner but just a set of three ImageButtons on a activity or Fragment.
I already tried a lot of stuff to make that happen but so far no luck but i think i know why though i can't find a workaround for this since i am actually new in android dev.
what i tried was inside the setOnClickListener of any of those buttons such as:
eventsButton.setOnClickListener(
new View.OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(View view) {
ImageButton eventsButton = (ImageButton) view.findViewById(R.id.eventsButton);
eventsButton.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.events_icon_active);
eventsButton.setClickable(false);
}
}
);
i tried to add the functions to change the other imageButtons as well like:
eventsButton.setOnClickListener(
new View.OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(View view) {
ImageButton eventsButton = (ImageButton) view.findViewById(R.id.eventsButton);
eventsButton.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.events_icon_inactive);
eventsButton.setClickable(false);
ImageButton contactsButton = (ImageButton) view.findViewById(R.id.contactsButton);
contactsButton.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.contacts_icon_inactive);
contactsButton.setClickable(true);
ImageButton interestsButton = (ImageButton) view.findViewById(R.id.interestsButton);
interestsButton.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.interests_icon_inactive);
interestsButton.setClickable(true);
}
}
);
and i repeated that three time, always setting the other buttons clickable and setting their images to the inactive one (the grayed out one), also setting the button i click as no longer clickable.
But from what i gather i cant do any references to any other buttons inside the eventsButton.setOnClickListener like the buttons interestsButton or contactsButton, it will crash the app as soon as i touch any of those three buttons with the following error message:
Attempt to invoke virtual method 'void android.widget.ImageButton.setBackgroundResource(int)' on a null object reference
And it always point to the first line where i make a reference to another button other then the one used to start the setOnClickListener.
If you can just point me in the right direction i would be tremendously grateful.
All the best

You can declare your ImageViews as final outside the scope of the listener and when the onClickListener(View v) is called you can then just call setBackground because they are final and you can reference them from inside the listener.
Something like this:
final ImageView view1 = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.view1id);
final ImageView view2 = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.view2id);
view1.setOnClickListener(
new View.OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(View view) {
// do whatever you want to the ImageViews
// view1.setBackground...
}
}
);

eventsButton.setOnClickListener(
new View.OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(View view) {
ImageButton contactsButton = (ImageButton) view.findViewById(R.id.contactsButton);
contactsButton.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.contacts_icon_inactive);
contactsButton.setClickable(true);
}
}
);
Your problem is in view.findViewById(R.id.contactsButton): view here is the button being clicked (the events one), and by calling view.findViewById(contactsButton) you are implicitly saying that the contact button is a child of view, which is not.
Just use findViewById() (from Activity), getActivity().findViewById() (from Fragments), or better container.findViewById() (if you have a reference to the layout containing the three buttons).
I'm not saying that yours is the most efficient way to deal with a menu, just pointing out your error.

You can first make things simple; I suggest:
you add 3 array (Arraylist might be better) fields in your activity class, one for the buttons, one for the active resources and one for the inactive resources
initialize those arrays in the onCreate method;
define a single onClickListener object and use it for all the buttons; Use a loop in the onClick method, see bellow.
In terms of code, it looks like this:
ImageButton[] buttons;
int[] activeResources;
int[] inactiveResources;
protected void onCreate2(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
View.OnClickListener onClickListener = new View.OnClickListener(){
public void onClick(View view) {
ImageButton clickedButton = (ImageButton) view;
for(int i = 0; i<buttons.length; i++){
ImageButton bt = buttons[i];
if(clickedButton==bt){
bt.setBackgroundResource(inactiveResources[i]);
bt.setClickable(false);
}else{
bt.setBackgroundResource(activeResources[i]);
bt.setClickable(true);
}
}
}
};
buttons = new ImageButton[3];
activeResources = new int[3];
inactiveResources = new int[3];
int idx = 0;
buttons[idx] = (ImageButton) findViewById(R.id.eventsButton);
inactiveResources[idx] = R.drawable.events_icon_inactive;
activeResources[idx] = R.drawable.events_icon_active;
idx = 1;
buttons[idx] = (ImageButton) findViewById(R.id.contactsButton);
inactiveResources[idx] = R.drawable.contacts_icon_inactive;
activeResources[idx] = R.drawable.contacts_icon_active;
idx = 3;
buttons[idx] = (ImageButton) findViewById(R.id.interestsButton);
inactiveResources[idx] = R.drawable.interests_icon_inactive;
activeResources[idx] = R.drawable.interests_icon_active;
for(int i =0; i<buttons.length; i++){
buttons[i].setBackgroundResource(activeResources[i]);
buttons[i].setOnClickListener(onClickListener);
}
}
Do not expect it to run right the way, I am giving only ideas, you have to look and see if it fit for you are looking for.

Android: Dynamically create image button with click event

I'm new to android and I require to have a list of image buttons in an activity which are created based on the data in a database. I haven't created anything like this in android before and so far I've been using HTML tables to show my data in a grid view. I'm not asking for any special code, I'm just clueless on how to implement this. I wanna know what the best approach is.
One problem I've faced is with the click events(in the way I've been doing them so far) which do not take in any EventArg, so I can't get the name of the button out of them.

If you're sure that the OnClickListener instance is applied to a Button, then you could just cast the received view to a Button and get the text:
public void onClick(View v) {
// 1) Possibly check for instance of first
Button b = (Button)v;
String buttonText = b.getText().toString();
}

// create the layout params that will be used to define how your button will be displayed
LinearLayout.LayoutParams params = new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(
LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
// Create Button
final Button btn = new Button(this);
// Give button an ID
btn.setId(someinteger);
btn.setText("Add Text");
// set the layoutParams on the button
btn.setLayoutParams(params);

I need to add onClickListener to a bunch of ImageButtons

I have created a bunch of ImageButtons programmatically while in a for loop. They have worked fine as the data displayed in a HorizontalScrollView. Now I need each one to go dim or bright when clicked. First click will setAlpha(45); second click will setAlpha(255);.
I don't think I fully understand how the Views and onClickListener works yet. It seems the onClick function examples I find take a View. How would that function know which button is clicked? Perhaps there is an easier way to do what I want?
Here are the ImageButtons.
TableRow tr0 = new TableRow(this);
tr0.setLayoutParams(new LayoutParams(LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT, LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT));
for(int but=0; but<ClueList.size(); but++){
ImageButton clueBut = new ImageButton(this);
clueBut.setBackgroundResource(0);
clueBut.setImageBitmap(ClueList.get(but).btmp);
//clueBut.setOnClickListener(this);
tr0.addView(clueBut);
}
Is there something I need to do to make the buttons identifiable? And how would that pass in through into the onClick function to be used?
-: Added Information :-
I am starting to wonder if the problem isn't with the buttons, but with the way I built the screen. More information added.
The Game activity is the main game, which uses the PuzzleView for the upper part of the screen holding the game grid. The lower part is where the ImageButtons are and I built them in place in the Game class.
public class Game extends Activity{
//various variables and stuff
private PuzzleView puzzleView; // The PuzzleView is from another .java file
// public class PuzzleView extends View
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState){
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
LinearLayout mainPanel = new LinearLayout(this);
mainPanel.setOrientation(LinearLayout.VERTICLE);
puzzleView = new PuzzleView(this);
mainPanel.addView(puzzleView);
HorizontalScrollView bottom = new HorizontalScrollView(this);
mainPanel.addView(bottom);
TableLayout clues = new TableLayout(this);
bottom.addView(clues);
TableRow tr0 = new TableRow(this);
for(int but=0; but<ClueList.size(); but++){
ImageButton clueBut = new ImageButton(this);
clueBut.setImageBitmap(ClueList.get(but).btmp);
tr0.addView(clueBut);
}
When I try to add the ClickListener(this) I get errors about this not being able to be a Game. I have similar problems in the onClick(View v) function referencing the View. Are these problems because I am building the buttons in the Game Activity instead of a View class?
Thanks

When you set up an OnClickListener and implement the onClick(View v) callback, it's the Dalvik VM the one that will call that method each time the View is clicked, and it will pass the View instance as a parameter. Thus, the code you write inside that method will be applied only to the View that received the click and not to any other View. Add something like this to your loop:
clueBut.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
public void onClick (View v) {
if (v.getAlpha() == 1f)
v.setAlpha(0.2f);
else
v.setAlpha(1f);
}
});

In the onClick event:
public void onClick(View currentView)
{
Button currentButton = (Button)CurrentView;
//Do whatever you need with that button here.
}

To identify each view uniquely use the property
View. setId(int)
In your case the code would look something like this
for(int but=0; but<ClueList.size(); but++){
ImageButton clueBut = new ImageButton(this);
clueBut.setBackgroundResource(0);
clueBut.setImageBitmap(ClueList.get(but).btmp);
clueBut.setId(but);
//clueBut.setOnClickListener(this);
tr0.addView(clueBut);
}
Inside the onclick listener match the id of the view using findViewByID()

Get reference to Views in my Android Activity

I have a LinearLayout comprising of a few Buttons and I add this to my activity in the onCreate(..) method with setContentView(R.layout.myscreen). No surprises so far.
How do I get a reference to an iterator to these buttons? I'd like to add listeners to them but I'd rather not directly reference the Button's using their android:id.
Similar questions have been asked here and here but they don't quite answer my question.

Try something like this provide an id root_layout in xml to LinearLayout
LinearLayout mLayout = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.root_layout);
for(int i = 0; i < mLayout.getChildCount(); i++)
{
Button mButton = (Button) mLayout.getChildAt(i);
mButton.setOnClickListener(this);
}
Where mLayout is object of you Linear Layout and Your activity must implements OnClickListener and here goes general listener
#Override
public void onClick(View v)
{
Button mButton = (Button)v;
String buttonText = mButton.getText().toString();
}
NOTE: For this to work properly you Linear Layout must only contains button no other views

You should take a look at my answer here.
In short. I'd assign the buttons a listener by setting the onClick attribute in the XML layout on each Button.
Inside of your Activity you'll need a public method like the one below which basically is what you want to do in your listener.
public void myFancyMethod(View v) {
// do something interesting here
}

If you want to go for accessing other elements you may try following syntax:
<ElementClass> <referencevariable> = (<ElementClass>) findViewById(R.id.<id_of_the_element>);
For Example:
TextView textView= (TextView) findViewById(R.id.t1); //I used t1 to refer my textview in the Layout.
This might work.
Then you can use these views with their inbuilt methods to perform as many as work you want.