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From: Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Android URI to drawable
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Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote:
> Drawable d =3D=20
> Drawable.createFromPath("e:\\Config\\$NetRadioCovers\\Other\\96.7=20
> Ashbourne Radio.jpg");
>=20
> This returns null, even though the path is correct.
> Any ideas on how to do it?

Here is a lesson in why you should put all the necessary information in the=
 body of your post, and not just in the subject.  Your subject refers to "A=
ndroid URI", but the body of your post talks about a Windows path.  That is=
 confusing.

Regardless, the evidence from the tiny bit of information you provide is th=
at the path is most definitely *not* correct.  At the very least, you shoul=
d re-examine that assumption and take steps to prove it.  (E.g., write a un=
it test that test for something like 'new File("your path").exists()'.)  Do=
n't assume the path is right, prove that it's right.  I will bet you fifty =
bucks that it isn't.  (Monopoly money only.)

Please give ocmplete information in your post.  Is this a Windows problem o=
r an Android problem?  If this is Android, then the path isn't even correct=
ly formatted, much less correct.

You should consider using 'System.getProperty("file.separator")' or equival=
ent instead of hard-coding non-portable idioms.

Also, I see no evidence of a URI in your code snippet.  How does that figur=
e in?

--=20
Lew