I am using arrayadapters for listviews on dialog boxes and for
autocomplettion
I have a few questions
1) I've found it far faster to have an array built in as a resource
than to load data from an xml using Linq
The array from resource ('bout 270 items) loads in under a second whereas
using xdocument.load takes 6 seconds
Presume this is to be expected?
Resource array looks like this
<string-array name="GBairfarr1">
<item>EGJA Alderney .#49.7067/-2.215</item>
<item>EGSL Andrews Field Great Salin .#51.895/0.4494</item>
The XML is more like this
<dataroot xmlns:od="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:officedata"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
generated="2010-06-05T13:38:35">
<Airports><icao>LATI</icao><lat>N41245300</lat><long>E019431400</long><airfi
eld>TIRANA</airfield><place>TIRANA</place><country>ALB</country></Airports>
2) I'd really like to load the additional fields from the xml at the
same time as loading the arrayadapter - but this means a time penalty
because it seems I am stuck with loading the data from an xdocument then
parsing it into an arrayadapter
You can see I've tried a dodge by putting the latitude/log info in the
resource array string with the intention of getting at it using a substring
The drawback of this is that Arrayadapter seems to strip out all the white
space so all the #lat/long stuff appears in my dialog or autocomplete box
Is there a way of stopping ArrayAdapter from stripping out the whitespace
Or is there a way of having a multicolumn arrayadapter with only the first
column visible - as with windows forms where a listbox have a text array for
display and a hidden value array backing it
Any thoughts greatly appreciated
John Murray
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