Java Question Accessing "icon" in library?

[barx]

Howdy do

How would one return the Bitmap of the Icon file (or another file in the res/drawable folder)?

And what is this:

BA.applicationContext.getResources().getIdentifier(s, "drawable", BA.packageName)

returning.

thanks

 

[Erel]

This return a Drawable mapped to the value of s.
Substitute s with "icon" to get the icon BitmapDrawable.

 

[barx]

It appears to return an int value?

I create a variable to store icon file for later use

private static String nIcon;

Then later try to set it with

nIcon = BA.applicationContext.getResources().getIdentifier("icon", "drawable", BA.packageName);

In Eclipse I get a type mismatch error 'Cannot convert from int to String'

Any clues?

thanks

 

[Erel]

You are correct, you should then use ...getResources().getDrawable(nIcon),

 

[barx]

Thank you. :sign0188:

Never thought I would get into make a library but I'm loving it. Dreading the big test though lol.

 

[barx]

Ha, I guess I now need to learn the difference between a Drawable and a Bitmap. And how to convert to Bitmap.

The above obviously returns a drawable.......
I need it to be a Bitmap.....

Clues? lol

 

[barx]

Ha, I guess I now need to learn the difference between a Drawable and a Bitmap. And how to convert to Bitmap.

The above obviously returns a drawable.......
I need it to be a Bitmap.....

Clues? lol

never mind for now, i may be creating problems that don't exist lol.