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From: Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: ArrayAdapter
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2011 14:48:33 +0100
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On 02/04/2011 07:58, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> In message<8vnmbrFq40U1@mid.individual.net>, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote:
>
>> On 02/04/2011 05:12, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>> In message<8vnhhhFseeU1@mid.individual.net>, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote:
>>>
>>>> Perhaps I ought to try google - watcha think?
>>>
>>> What was wrong with passing the ArrayAdapter to the BlinkAPI constructor?
>>
>> Simply put, I pass the context to the constructor.
>> However, I do not know how to access the ArrayAdapter using the context.
>
> Ah, I see, you have a circularity in that the ArrayAdapter refers to the
> BlinkAPI instance, but BlinkAPI needs access to the ArrayAdapter.
>
> It seems to me you need to separate UI code from data-model code to break
> the cycle. How about doing this:
>
> * Define a class, say BlinkItem, that contains all the state for a single
> item in the list, with no reference to any UI widgets.
> * Define a subclass of ArrayAdapter<BlinkItem>  which implements the UI for
> displaying/manipulating a list of BlinkItems.
>
> How does that sound?

It's got to be better than my non-working approaches so far.
I will try it.
Another problem - What does passing context to a class mean if every 
item and method in it is static?

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Dirk

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