With the ToDo List example, I would like to be able to set the focus to a particular item in the list, by code. For example I want to set the first item as highlighted automatically at the beginning, under program control. I have tried everything I can think off but not successful yet. Can anyone help please?

The ToDoList example does automatically highlight the first item when the program starts, so I'm not sure what you mean there.

But if you want to modify the position of the highlight bar, try:

Thanks Sierawsk,

Further to my problem, I have successfully used
" myListView.setSelection0); " to position the place in the array list correctly.
That is part of my problem solved. The remaining part of the problem is that I have been unable to turn on the highlight at this position.
When I press the down key on the dpad the highlight turns on at the position I have set as outlined above. But when I try to use
" myListView.getSelectedItemPosition() " without manually highlighting the position first, the app crashes. That is why I want to highlight
an item by program control, to prevent such a crash. Thanks for your help so far. Is there any way to turn on the selection highlight?

Sorry, but I'm still not clear on the problem you're having. My ToDo app starts up fine with the second (or any) item selected and highlighted.

I don't have to press the D-Pad to get the highlight bar to appear. And myListView.getSelectedItemPosition() doesn't cause a crash.

Are you making sure to set the list position after the list is fully populated? I placed this code at the very bottom of the onCreate() routine of ToDoList.java.

What version of the software are you using? I am using 1.0, I wonder could that be the difference.

I'm using 1.1.