Question

Do you know how can I get the view which triggered an event?
By example:

    final AutoCompleteTextView edtxInput = (AutoCompleteTextView)layout.findViewById(R.id.edtx_input);  
    edtxInput.setThreshold(2);
    edtxInput.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {
        public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View arg1, int position, long arg3) {
            Console.debug(TAG, "view: " + arg1, Console.Liviu);             
            edtxInput.setText(((FormOption)edtxInput.getAdapter().getItem(position)).getDescription());
        }
    });

The problem here is that I don’t know how I can update the text from edtxInput in OnItemClickListener without making it final.

Thanks

Answer 1

Check this http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/AdapterView.OnItemClickListener.html

Parameters

parent The AdapterView where the click happened.

arg1 is the AutoCompleteTextView (edtxInput) itself. so you can do

 AutoCompleteTextView edtxInput = (AutoCompleteTextView)layout.findViewById(R.id.edtx_input);  
    edtxInput.setThreshold(2);
    edtxInput.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {
        public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View arg1, int position, long arg3) {
            Console.debug(TAG, "view: " + arg1, Console.Liviu); 
AutoCompleteTextView medtxInput = (AutoCompleteTextView)parent;
                medtxInput.setText(((FormOption)medtxInput.getAdapter().getItem(position)).getDescription());
            }
        });

UPDATE

Seems like the AutoCompleteTextView is not a subclass of AdapterView. That is at some part "fault" of the SDK here. To get the AutoCompleteTextView you can do a hack

 AutoCompleteTextView medtxInput = (AutoCompleteTextView)view.getParent();

So you get the clicked view then get its parent that is the AutoCompleteTextView

But why you don’t want AutoCompleteTextView to be final in the first place? Any particular reason?

If you want only the adapter you can write this and only this

((ChildClass)parent.getItemAtPosition(position)).getDescription();