Hi,

I am new to Eclipse programming and have a question. I have a main.xml which has a number of textViews and other information. I have a menu on which one button is "Save to PDF". When the button is tapped I need to get the textViews and a canvas image into a PDF.

I have worked out most of this, except that I cannot get the information from the form. If I try and call info from R.id.textView4 it complains of retrieving static code from a non-static field.

I have tried several things, including putting the PDF code into a separate class and using an intent, but have made no progress there either.

Could someone point me to a tutorial on calling class files and retrieving information from main.xml, or show me a simple code snippet of getting the data if putting the code in app.java?

Thought I would post the code I am using. Now getting no error but also the textView4 data is not pulled in. (textView4 is a textview with autocomplete):

@Override
       public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
           switch (item.getItemId()) {
                        
         case R.id.SavetoPDF:
             //save to PDF
                
             Toast.makeText(this, "Generating PDF", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    
             try {
                 Document document = new Document();
                 PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(FILE));
                 document.open();
                 addMetaData(document);
                 addTitlePage(document);
                 addContent(document);
                 document.close();
             } catch (Exception e) {
                 e.printStackTrace();
             }
             return true;
             
       }



private void addTitlePage(Document document)
            throws DocumentException {
        
        TextView clName = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView4);

        Paragraph preface = new Paragraph();
        preface.setAlignment(Element.ALIGN_CENTER);
        // add one empty line
        addEmptyLine(preface, 1);
        // header
        preface.add(new Paragraph("Timesheet", catFont));

        addEmptyLine(preface, 1);
        
        preface.add(new Paragraph(
                "Customer Details: ",
                smallBold));
        
        addEmptyLine(preface, 1);

    preface.add(new Paragraph(
                (String) clName.getText().toString(),
                smallBold));
        preface.add(new Paragraph(
                "This is where the address will go: ",
                smallBold));
        
        

        document.add(preface);
        // Start a new page
        document.newPage();
    }

Figured it out:

String ETValue = ((TextView) findViewById(R.id.autocomplete_client)).getText().toString();