Thanks for the reply. However I am still cloudy about some of the underlying ideas.
Especially for "android.R.id.list", is that defined through an explicit " <item type="id" name="list"> resource definition or was it defined through <ListView android:id="@id/list"> If it was the second case, I assume there are some properties already defined for a ListView identified by "android:id/list". And then when an application using ListActivity defines a view <ListView android:id="@android:id/list" ...some more properties </ListView> Are we overriding the properties? Sorry for the long list of questions, but continuing the idea in the following case <SomeView android:id="@+id/myview-id"> It says the "+" is there to create a new id "myview-id" if it doesn't exit. When will the following ever makes sense then: <SomeView android:id="@id/myview-id"> So this code assumes that there is an existing id called "myview-id" somewhere in the R.java. Will such a preexisting id defined through an explicit item id tag? Thank you once again for extra ordinary support on this forum Satya. On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 3:05 AM, hackbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Oct 5, 8:36 pm, "Satya Komatineni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Can one change R.java file manually? (I take it is auto generated >> based on res files) >> >> How did "android.R.id.list" constant got into android.R.java file? >> >> was there a layout in android that said >> >> "<ListView android:id="@+id/list".../> > > Yes, the R.id.* symbols are all of the identifier symbols you created > either through "@+..." or with an explicit <id> tag. > > The android.R symbols are a little different, because all of the ones > that show up there also must be explicitly declared to be public > through the <public> tag. This is not the case for application > resources. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
