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    <p>I have searched here and looked at samples but haven't yet found an answer to what is essentially a simple problem. Depending on the choice made in a preceding ListPreference, I want to build a preference screen of CheckBoxPreferences dynamically in code, which is then shown when I click on a simple preference with a click listener. The list and number of check boxes will be different in each case.</p> <p>This is where I have got to so far - just a simple bit of code to test the concept in the onClick listener, but how to get the check box preference screen to appear? There must be a simple explanation why it doesn't. What am I doing wrong?</p> <p>Part of my xml code:</p> <pre><code>&lt;PreferenceCategory android:title="Filters"&gt; &lt;PreferenceScreen android:key="FilterScreen" android:title="Filters" android:summary="Click to change filter settings"&gt; &lt;ListPreference android:title="Filter type" android:summary="Set to: Gliding" android:key="filterType" android:defaultValue="0" android:entries="@array/filterTypeOptions" android:entryValues="@array/filterTypeValues" /&gt; &lt;CheckBoxPreference android:title="" android:summary="Include Aerodrome Notams" android:defaultValue="false" android:key="filterIncludeAerodrome" /&gt; &lt;CheckBoxPreference android:title="" android:summary="Delete night-time Notams" android:defaultValue="true" android:key="filterDeleteNighttime" /&gt; &lt;ListPreference android:title="Select category to change" android:summary="Set to: Airspace organisation" android:key="filterCategory" android:defaultValue="0" android:entries="@array/filterCategoryOptions" android:entryValues="@array/filterCategoryValues" /&gt; &lt;Preference android:title="Show filters for category" android:summary="Click to choose subjects to delete" android:key="filterShow" /&gt; &lt;/PreferenceScreen&gt; &lt;/PreferenceCategory&gt; </code></pre> <p>The contents of "Show filters for category" will depend on the "Filter type" and "Select category to change" settings.</p> <p>This is the simple test code I have for the "Show filters" click listener (cut down just to show essentials):</p> <pre><code>public class Settings extends PreferenceActivity implements OnSharedPreferenceChangeListener { ------ public static final String KEY_FILTER_SHOW = "filterShow"; ------ private Preference mFilterShow; ------ @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); addPreferencesFromResource(R.layout.settings); // Get a reference to the preferences ------ mFilterShow = (Preference)findPreference(KEY_FILTER_SHOW); ------ // Set the click listener for Show Filter options mFilterShow.setOnPreferenceClickListener(new OnPreferenceClickListener() { public boolean onPreferenceClick(Preference pref) { Context ctx = pref.getContext(); PreferenceScreen screen = pref.getPreferenceManager().createPreferenceScreen(ctx); CheckBoxPreference cb1 = new CheckBoxPreference(ctx); cb1.setTitle("This is cb1"); cb1.setKey("cb1_key"); cb1.setDefaultValue(false); screen.addPreference(cb1); return true; } }); </code></pre> <p>I am sure that there must be a simple answer to what I have done wrong, or what I've missed! Please help...</p>
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    1. COI discovered that if I add the line "setPreferenceScreen(screen);" just before the "return true", nothing appears to happen when I click the Show Filters preference. However, if I then click 'back', the cb1 screen appears! If I then click 'back' again it takes me back out of Settings altogether. So I think I am almost there...
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    2. COGetting a bit closer. I changed the Show Filters Preference to a PreferenceScreen in the xml, and changed the line PreferenceScreen screen = ... to = (PreferenceScreen)getPreferenceScreen().findPreference(KEY_FILTER_SHOW); and removed the temporary setPreferenceScreen(screen) as referred to in the previous comment. Now the first click doesn't show anything, but the second click shows two cb1's and each subsequent click adds a cb1 (this would be expected). But I don't see why the first click doesn't bring up the screen with the single cb1. Clicking 'back' works as expected now.
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