Converting textView to Boolean to avoid: The method putExtra(String, boolean) in the type Intent is not applicable for the arguments

Question

I'm getting an error in eclipse stating: The method putExtra(String, boolean) in the type Intent is not applicable for the arguments (String, TextView)

I believe I'll need to change my textView to a boolean however when I attempt to do so - it causes other errors to occur. What is the best way of avoiding this error in a scenario such as this:

public class CustomListViewAdapter extends ArrayAdapter<Cmd> {
    Activity context;
    List<Cmd> videos;

    public CustomListViewAdapter(Activity context, List<Cmd> videos) {
        super(context, R.layout.list_item2, videos);

        this.context = context;
        this.videos = videos;
    }

    /* private view holder class */
    private class ViewHolder {
        ImageView imageView;
        TextView txtSuccess;
        TextView txtCmd;
        TextView txtPrice;
    }

    public void run() {

        Intent intent = new Intent(context, ViewVideo.class);
        ViewHolder holder;
        intent.putExtra("videofilename", holder.txtCmd);
        context.startActivity(intent);
    }

    public Cmd getItem(int position) {
        return videos.get(position);
    }

    public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
        ViewHolder holder;
        LayoutInflater inflater = context.getLayoutInflater();
        if (convertView == null) {
            convertView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.list_item2, null);
            holder = new ViewHolder();
            holder.txtSuccess = (TextView) convertView
                    .findViewById(R.id.success);
            holder.txtCmd = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.cmd);
            holder.txtPrice = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.price);
            holder.imageView = (ImageView) convertView
                    .findViewById(R.id.thumbnail);
            convertView.setTag(holder);

        } else {
            holder = (ViewHolder) convertView.getTag();
        }

        Cmd cmd = (Cmd) getItem(position);

        holder.txtSuccess.setText(cmd.getVideoName());
        holder.txtSuccess.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

            public void onClick(View v) {
                run();
            }
        });
        holder.txtCmd.setText(cmd.getCmd());
        holder.txtCmd.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

            public void onClick(View v) {
                run();
            }
        });

        holder.txtPrice.setText(cmd.getVideoURL() + "");
        holder.txtPrice.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

            public void onClick(View v) {
                run();
            }
        });

        holder.imageView.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

            public void onClick(View v) {
                run();
            }
        });
        return convertView;

    }

}

Answer 1

public void run(String txt) {

    Intent intent = new Intent(context, ViewVideo.class);
    intent.putExtra("videofilename",txt);
    context.startActivity(intent);
}

and in get view:

final  Cmd cmd = (Cmd) getItem(position);

and in onclick:

run(cmd.getCmd());

Answer 2

The method putExtra(String, boolean) in the type Intent is not applicable for the arguments (String, TextView)

public Intent putExtra (String name, boolean value) name is the key and value is a boolean. So it expects a boolean value.

I don't think you want to boolean either. I guess you want to pass the text in textview to another activity

Look @

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent.html

You can use the View object v

holder.txtCmd.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

            public void onClick(View v) {
                TextView tv =(TextView)v;   // cast to textview 
                Intent intent = new Intent(context, ViewVideo.class);
                intent.putExtra("videofilename", tv.getText().toString());
                // use getText to get the text from textview
                context.startActivity(intent);
            }
        });

Or you can use setTag and getTag on the view

Answer 3

The part:

ViewHolder holder;
intent.putExtra("videofilename", holder.txtCmd);  

won't get you anything, holder.txtCmd.getText is not going to return the filename, instead you can pass the file name with the function run(String filename) as a parameter. Then you will be able to pass it directly as text.