I have 200 textviews and i want to know which one was pressed then how to change the text

Question

I have a problem... have been thinking about it for a while now and been looking on line and still haven't come up with a clear explanation...

I have a number of textviews and have set onClickListeners to each of them.. and when the user clicks on one of them I want them to have the ability to change the text to another set of string array options which I have created progammatically. When the user selects an option the text should change to the option they choose. (I.e. TextView was A now it is B. hope this makes sense.. anyway... )

The current solution was to set a OnClickListener to every TextView and when someone pressed it an individual dialog showed. But I found that if I do this the code would be so long it would take an eternity to code so am hoping someone has a more elegant way of coding such a long process =(

So I guess my question would be... 1) is there a way I can find out which text view was pressed and then change the text of that TextView being pressed within a single method? to save me having to code 1000 alert dialogs...

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Answer 1

I would suggest holding the textviews in an array, like so:

TextView[] textViewArray = new TextView[textViewCount];

Then using a for loop assign each one a tag of integer - it's position

textViewArray.setTag(i)

And add an onClickListener to each one, again using a for loop:

textviewArray[i].setOnClickListener(etc...)

Then when one is clicked, you can use get the position of view that was clicked. This will require a custom method inside of your:

textviewArray.setOnClickListener(new customOnClickListener())

Where your customOnClickListner is like this:

    private class customOnClickListener implements CompoundButton.{
    public void OnClick(View view){
        int position = (Integer) view.getTag()
        ///Do more code here - your processing
    }
}

Hope that makes sense :) For your for loops, you could use for(i = 0, i