Question

I have a dialog setup that has two spinners connected to a cursor. I have worked through a couple of problems with the help of this site, but I can not seem to get past this point. Everything I find are things I have already tried.
The problem is that when I click on a spinner selection or click Submit to exit the dialog, the spinner value is not the value it should be. I am getting the package name with some code. I am trying to get the string from the spinner with .getSelectedItem().toString();
I currently have the code set up to use onItemSelected, but before that I tried to use the getItemSelected once Submit was clicked. Neither seem to work.

Here is the code for this section.
At the end the values are going into a textview. The value shown is “android.database.sqlite.sqliteCursor@414175e0”

Any ideas?

 private void transfer() {
     dialog = new Dialog(this, android.R.style.Theme_Holo_Light_Dialog_MinWidth);
     dialog.setContentView(R.layout.transfer_dialog);
     dialog.setTitle(R.string.transfer_accounts);
     Button btnCancel = (Button)dialog.findViewById(R.id.btnCancel);
     Button btnSubmit = (Button)dialog.findViewById(R.id.btnSubmit);

     Cursor load_spinner = mDbHelper.spinnerAccounts();
     startManagingCursor(load_spinner);

     String[] columns = new String[] { RegisterDbAdapter.ACCOUNTS_ACCOUNT };
     int[] to = new int[] { android.R.id.text1 };

     SimpleCursorAdapter mAdapter = new SimpleCursorAdapter(this, android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item, load_spinner, columns, to);
     mAdapter.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);
     spinnerFrom = (Spinner)dialog.findViewById(R.id.spinnerFrom);
     spinnerTo = (Spinner)dialog.findViewById(R.id.spinnerTo);
     spinnerFrom.setAdapter(mAdapter);
     spinnerTo.setAdapter(mAdapter);
     dialog.show();

     spinnerFrom.setOnItemSelectedListener(new OnItemSelectedListener(){
         public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> parent, View arg1, int arg2, long arg3) {
             fromAccount = parent.getSelectedItem().toString();
         }
         public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView<?> arg0) {
             // TODO Auto-generated method stub
         }
        }); 
     spinnerTo.setOnItemSelectedListener(new OnItemSelectedListener(){
         public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> parent, View arg1, int arg2, long arg3) {
             toAccount = parent.getSelectedItem().toString();
         }
         public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView<?> arg0) {
             // TODO Auto-generated method stub
         }
        });
     btnCancel.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
            public void onClick(View v) {
                 dialog.dismiss(); 
            }
          });

     btnSubmit.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
            public void onClick(View v) {
                 tvFrom.setText(fromAccount);
                 tvTo.setText(toAccount);
                 dialog.dismiss();
            }
          });

 }

Answer 1

So I finally got it to work. Thanks for the suggestions, I really do appreciate them, but they didn’t work for me. I am not sure why the code will not return the value, since the way I tried it supposedly works for others.
Anyway, I found a way to get my values by using ‘Long arg3’. Since it holds the rowId of the value in the table, I used that to return the selection in the spinner. I am posting the code for this below.
Thanks again.

The code from the selected spinner:

  spinnerFrom.setOnItemSelectedListener(new OnItemSelectedListener(){
         public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> parent, View arg1, int arg2, long arg3) {
             getAccountName(arg3);
             fromAccount = returnAccount;
             }

        public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView<?> arg0) {
             // TODO Auto-generated method stub
         }
        });

And here is the method I wrote to return the value I wanted. I put it a separate method because it is getting used from multiple spinners. The code:

 private void getAccountName(long arg3) {
     if (returnAccount != null){
         returnAccount = null;
     }
        RegisterDbAdapter tAdaptor = new RegisterDbAdapter(this);
        tAdaptor.open();
        Cursor tCursor = tAdaptor.fetchAccount(arg3);
        startManagingCursor(tCursor);
        returnAccount = tCursor.getString(1);
    }