Question

I got a application with a listView in which I setup data from my sqlite database. My CustomCursorAdapter is placing the data (from the DBAdapter) in the listview.
I want to get the item id of the selected item from my listView, I got it working via this code:

listView.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {
           @Override
           public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> listView, View view, 
             int position, long id) {
           // Get the cursor, positioned to the corresponding row in the result set
           Cursor cursor = (Cursor) listView.getItemAtPosition(position);

           //Get it from the database.
           String countryCode = 
           cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(cursor.getColumnName(0)));
           Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),
             countryCode, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

           }
          });

That code does get the ID and makes a toast in which I can see the ID. This works perfectly.
Now I want to put it in a context menu in which I long click the item (so this method does not start). I have the context menu working with the items, but I only need to get the id of which item in the listview is selected.

This is now my code for the context menu:

     public boolean onContextItemSelected(MenuItem item) {

     Cursor cursor = (Cursor) listView.getItemAtPosition(position);


       String countryCode = 
       cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(cursor.getColumnName(0)));


      switch (item.getItemId()) {
              case CONTEXT_MENU_DELETE_ITEM:

               Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),
                     countryCode, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                   return(true);
             case CONTEXT_MENU_UPDATE:

                   return(true);    
      }
  return(super.onOptionsItemSelected(item));
}

The context menu does not work now because the position variabele is not set. I really dont know how to get the selected item.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Use this

AdapterContextMenuInfo menuInfo = (AdapterContextMenuInfo) item .getMenuInfo();   
int positionSelected = menuInfo.position;