Android :: Setting A Spinner OnClickListener()

Im trying to get an onClickListener to fire on a Spinner, but i get the following error: Java.lang.RuntimeException is "Don't call setOnClickListener for an AdapterView. You probably want setOnItemClickListener instead," the thing is, im sure I want to call onClickListener and NOT onItemClickListener. I found this question asked by someone else on stackOverflow.

The question is here: link text

The answer stated there is:

You will have to set the Click listener on the underlying view(normally a TextView with id:

Android.R.id.text1) of the spinner. To do so:

Create a custom Spinner In the constructor (with attributes) create the spinner by supplying the layout android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item Do a findViewById(android.R.id.text1)to get the TextView Now set the
onClickListener to the TextView

I have tried the answer noted there, but it doesnt seem to work, I get a null pointer to the TextView after I do the findViewById().

This is what im doing:

CODE:.......

layoutspinner.xml

CODE:...................

I'm new to stack overflow, I didnt find any way to post an aditional question to the other thread (or comment since I have to little rep) so I started a new question.

Per recomendation I tried this:

CODE:........

But logCat isnt showing promising results.

10-14 16:09:08.127: INFO/System.out(3116): Count =7
10-14 16:09:08.127: INFO/System.out(3116): ChildCount =0

I have tested this on API levels 7 and 8 with same results.