How do I declare "Member Fields" in Java?
- by Bub
This question probably reveals my total lack of knowledge in Java. But let me first show you what I thought was the correct way to declare a "member field":
public class NoteEdit extends Activity {
private Object mTitleText;
private Object mBodyText;
I'm following a google's notepad tutorial for android (here) and they simply said: "Note that mTitleText and mBodyText are member fields (you need to declare them at the top of the class definition)." I thought I got it and then realized that this little snippet of code wasn't working.
if (title != null) {
mTitleText.setText(title);
}
if (body != null) {
mBodyText.setText(body);
}
So either I didn't set the "member fields" correctly which I thought all that was needed was to declare them private Objects at the top of the NoteEdit class or I'm missing something else. Thanks in advance for any help.UPDATE
I was asked to show where these fields were being intialized here is another code snippet hope that it's helpful...
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.note_edit);
Long mRowId;
mTitleText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.title);
mBodyText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.body);
