Question

I am trying to write an Activity that has some views, a fillView() method that sets the views (which is not static because it must utilize getContentResolver), and a static method that makes a random choice from a cursor and then runs the fillView() method.

I had problems with this due to fillView not being static and pickRandom being static, so I tried to initialzize an instance of the class, but now it crashes on the line instance.fillView();

Sample code below. Any help would be appreciated. Perhaps there is a much easier way to accomplish what I am trying to do.

Thanks,
Josh

public class myView extends Activity implements OnClickListener {


@Override 
   public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState){
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
    setContentView(R.layout.myView);

fillView();

    }


public void fillView(){

    //creates views, runs cursor and applies results to the view created

}

public static void pickRandom() {   


          // runs cursor, picks random entry, next I want to apply the result to 
          //  view, so I run...

        myView v = new myView();
        v.fillView();

        }

Answer 1

Make a static instance variable and set in in oncreate:

private static myView instance;

oncreate()

instance = this;

static pickrandom()

instance.fillView();