Android Question Identify CustomView

[stevel05]

Is there a way in code to identify that a view is a CustomView?

 

[klaus]

Directly, I think no.
But with GetType(view) you get b4a.example.mycustomview, mycustomview is the name of the CustomView.

 

[stevel05]

Thanks Klaus,

I'd then need to keep a manual index of the CustomViews. It's an option, but I was hoping for a more direct solution like:

Object Is CustomView, which I know doesn't work. Or to be able to pull a specific field from it with JavaObject maybe, I just can't find one.

 

[klaus]

Further looking shows that the CustomView type is:
PackageName.ViewName
PackageName is the package name where the CustumView was defined or compiled from that is the case in my previous post with b4a.example, it's not general.

 

[stevel05]

Yes, but if i had two customviews in an app, I'd get:

b4a,example.customview1 and b4a.example.customview2 and I wouldn't know which one is which without an index.

Whereas GetView(EditText1) returns android.widget.EditText, so I'd know immediately that it is an EditText.

 

[stevel05]

Sorry, that was not a good explanation.

What I meant was that without an index of CustomViews, I wouldn't know that the viewname returned was a customview.

 

[klaus]

I think you give your customviews meaningful names so with GetView you know if it's customview1 or customview2.
You can also test:

Dim obj as Object
If obj Is customview1 then
Else If obj Is customview2 Then
End If

 

[stevel05]

Yes, looks like that's going to be it. I'll probably add them to a list then do an indexof search as I only really need to know if it is a custom view or not.

Thanks