Android :: Namespaces And Custom Widgets

As a continuation of the thread in http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers /browse_thread/threa, I'm still trying to figure out how a custom widget can use getIdentifier() to read attributes. As an example, I have a widget class called Custom Widget. It has attributes "inner_margin" and "outer_margin". Normally, to read these attributes, I would do the following in source code: import com.example. customactivity. R;// I don't want to do this. TypedArray a = ctx.obtainStyledAttributes(attrs, R.styleable. CustomWidget); innerMargin = a.getInt(R.styleable.CustomWidget_inner_margin, 0); Because my CustomWidget is intended to be shared among a number of projects, or even get published, it's a real problem having to import R from whatever activity it's going to be linked with. What I'd rather do is: int resid = ctx.get Resources ().get Identifier ("inner_margin", "int", "com.example.customwidget"); innerMargin = a.getInt(resid, 0); but getidentifier always returns zero. Can anybody tell me the magic I need to perform to do what I want? For completeness, my CustomWidget.xml file that defines the resources looks like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <resources> <declare-styleable name="CustomWidget"> <attr name="outer_margin" format="integer" /> <attr name=" inner_margin" format="integer" /> </declare-styleable> </resources> and for even more completeness, the entire source code can be found at http://www.efalk.org /tmp/ CustomWidget.tar.gz You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android