Question

I have an activity with an EditText box and a ListView. I also Override onCreateContextMenu like this:

@Override
    public void onCreateContextMenu(ContextMenu menu, View v,
        ContextMenuInfo menuInfo) {
        super.onCreateContextMenu(menu, v, menuInfo);
        android.view.MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
        inflater.inflate(R.menu.comments_context, menu);
        menu.setHeaderTitle("Available Actions");

        Log.d("v: ", String.valueOf(v));

        MenuItem Edit = menu.findItem(R.id.editComment);
        MenuItem Delete = menu.findItem(R.id.deleteComment);

        AdapterContextMenuInfo info = (AdapterContextMenuInfo) menuInfo;


        int position = info.position;
        ListView lv = (ListView) v;
        int firstVisible = lv.getFirstVisiblePosition();
        View rowView = lv.getChildAt(position - firstVisible);

        ReviewUser = ((TextView) rowView.findViewById(R.id.labelReviewCommentUser)).getText()
                .toString();

        ReviewComment = ((TextView) rowView                 .findViewById(R.id.labelReviewComment)).getText().toString();

Here is problem. onCreateContext can be called by system when I longpress an EditText box for cut/copy/paste/etc. It also can be called when you long click my ListView. I get a null crash at the Two TextViews at the bottom’s above in last line when system calls onCreateContextMenu from EditText.

Here is solution: I need to compare views when onCreateConextMenu is created. However, i do not know how to do this and can’t find solution anywhere. I have Logg’ed View v, and all other views in my activity and it ALWAYS points to my ListView…

How can I create code that says:

         if (view passed in is from ListView) {


            MenuItem Edit = menu.findItem(R.id.editComment);
            MenuItem Delete = menu.findItem(R.id.deleteComment);

                // do other things

          }

Can anyone guide me? I’ve been looking for a week on this…

Answer 1

Not the final solution, because what was happening may actually be a bug, but simply moving the EditText out of the ListView header but to the main XML file allowed me to bypass the issue.