Could you please post the full exception logs? ViewRoot.draw() does not do Strings manipulation. You are just showing the state of a thread, it doesn't mean the exception generated from that place in the code.
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Wall-E <[email protected]> wrote: > I appreciate your help Dan but I've already considered what you > suggested. The problem is I can't debug which string is throwing that > error because it throws it in ViewRoot.draw and I have no clue what > that is other than I'm guessing that's a private MapActivity class > that I can't access. I'm narrowing it down to being an issue with > timing because I am creating an overlay and maybe I'm accessing it > before it is initialized. That's just a guess but the question I'm > having is why would ViewRoot.draw(boolean) be throwing the exception? > If that is processing something I've created, I should be able to see > it right? Going back to how my app works, I send an SMS containing > GPS coordinates along with some other information and I mostly send > the same SMS over and over again and sometimes it breaks it, other > times it works perfectly fine. That's what leads me to believe that > my string handling code is fine. > > On Sep 7, 2:07 pm, DanH <[email protected]> wrote: >> Can't help with your specific questions, but 9 times out of 10, when >> StringIndexOutOfBounds is thrown from system code, the problem is a >> fairly obvious one of the user supplying a string that's too short or >> an index into the string that's too large (or occasionally a negative >> index or zero-length string). An especially common error is failing >> to account for the very last byte and somehow implying a maximum index >> that is one character too long. And of course the ever popular >> mistake of assuming 1-origin rather than 0-origin. >> >> On Sep 7, 11:23 am, Wall-E <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> > So in my application, I receive an SMS which contains GPS >> > coordinates. I have a receiver that handles the SMS and parsing. I >> > also have a map activity that plots those points. In the map activity >> > I create/plot a placemark of the point and I also have a balloon >> > overlay that pops up when the user clicks on the placemark. Sometimes >> > when clicking on this placemark, there is a >> > StringIndexOutofBoundsException being thrown. I'm not sure how to >> > view the stack trace but I've stepped through my code and cannot view >> > the code where this is happening. >> >> > This is what my Debug window looks like at the time of the crash: >> >> > Thread [<3> main] (Suspended (exception >> > StringIndexOutOfBoundsException)) >> > ViewRoot.draw(boolean) line: 1378 >> > ViewRoot.performTraversals() line: 1119 >> > ViewRoot.handleMessage(Message) line: 1638 >> > ViewRoot(Handler).dispatchMessage(Message) line: 99 >> > Looper.loop() line: 130 >> > ActivityThread.main(String[]) line: 4425 >> > Method.invokeNative(Object, Object[], Class, Class[], Class, int, >> > boolean) line: not available [native method] >> > Method.invoke(Object, Object...) line: 521 >> > ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run() line: 860 >> > ZygoteInit.main(String[]) line: 618 >> > NativeStart.main(String[]) line: not available [native method] >> >> > Does anybody know where ViewRoot is being called? I have an OnTap() >> > method and the overlay classes which I've stepped through and >> > everything seems fine but I can only step through it to a certain >> > point. >> >> > Any suggestions on how to debug this is greatly appreciated. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- Romain Guy Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
