Issues with Chapter 2 Todo List .add() on key listener

Swak · February 19th, 2009, 10:03 PM

I had a few errors and realized that they were due to missing imports. But after that I got down to one error.

Code:

myListView.setAdapter(aa);
        
        myEditText.setOnKeyListener(new OnKeyListener() {
            public boolean onKey(View v, int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
                if (event.getAction() == KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN)
                {
                    todoItems.add(0, myEditText.getText().toString());
                    aa.notifyDataSetChanged();
                    myEditText.setText("");
                    return true;
                }
                return false;
            }
        });

LINE:
todoItems.add(0, myEditText.getText().toString());

ERROR:
The method add(int, R.string) in the type ArrayList<R.string> is not applicable for the arguments (int, String) ToDoList.java Todo_List/src/com/paad/todolist line 36 Java Problem

... Any ideas?

I copied the sample code directly into eclipse and the error still appears.
I am using the latest SDK 1.1 and Eclipse 3.4 to develop with.

Reto · February 20th, 2009, 02:37 AM

From the error message it looks like the ArrayList "todoItems" has been declared using the type R.String instead of String.

Just above the code you pasted there are two lines that initialize the generic ArrayList and ArrayAdapter classes, it seems like they might be specifying the type as R.String rather than String. If that's the case you're code might look like this:

Code:

final ArrayList<R.String> todoItems  = new ArrayList<String>();
final ArrayAdapter<R.String> aa;

If so, try changing them to use String instead. It should look more like this:

Code:

final ArrayList<String> todoItems  = new ArrayList<String>();
final ArrayAdapter<String> aa;

Let me know if that helps, otherwise it might be worth posting everything in your onCreate method and I'll see if I can replicate the problem.

gregmartin · January 22nd, 2010, 06:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Reto

From the error message it looks like the ArrayList "todoItems" has been declared using the type R.String instead of String.

Just above the code you pasted there are two lines that initialize the generic ArrayList and ArrayAdapter classes, it seems like they might be specifying the type as R.String rather than String. If that's the case you're code might look like this:

Code:

final ArrayList<R.String> todoItems  = new ArrayList<String>();
final ArrayAdapter<R.String> aa;

If so, try changing them to use String instead. It should look more like this:

Code:

final ArrayList<String> todoItems  = new ArrayList<String>();
final ArrayAdapter<String> aa;

Let me know if that helps, otherwise it might be worth posting everything in your onCreate method and I'll see if I can replicate the problem.

I had this problem. It was because I'd put the word String in lowercase on the declarations, changed and it worked. Coming from a VB.NET and Delphi background it's something I must remember....CASE SENSITIVE.....Doooohhh..