android - setOnClickListener of a ListView not working

Question

So I'm trying to set up a setOnClickListener for my ListView but it's causing a crash in my program for some reason when I try... I'm quite new to programming so when it comes to troubleshooting I can't really do anything sadly :( my code is below so any ideas on what could be wrong would be extremely helpful:

public class HomePageActivity extends Activity {
    //ListView that holds the items
    ListView lstTest;
    
    //Array Adapter that holds the ArrayList and displays the items on the ListView
    AlertsAdapter arrayAdapter;
    
    //List that hosts the items
    ArrayList<Alerts> alrts = null;
    
    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.homepage);
        
        //Initialize the ListView
        lstTest = (ListView)findViewById(R.id.lstText);
        
        //Initialize the ArrayList
        alrts = new ArrayList&lt;Alerts&gt;();
        
        //Initialize the array adapter
        arrayAdapter = new AlertsAdapter(HomePageActivity.this, R.layout.listitems,alrts);
        
        //Set the above adapter as the adapter of choice for our list
        lstTest.setAdapter(arrayAdapter);
        
        lstTest.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            public void onClick(View v) {
                Intent intent = new Intent(
                HomePageActivity.this,
                PromotionActivity.class
                );
                startActivity(intent);
            }
        });
        //... ... ...
    }
} 

Any thoughts? I'm stuck :(

Edit: Posting error log file from ddms:

08-04 04:14:26.351: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(8882): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
08-04 04:14:26.351: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(8882): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{hypenyte.bdutcher.promopost/hypenyte.bdutcher.promopost.HomePageActivity}: java.lang.RuntimeException: Don't call setOnClickListener for an AdapterView. You probably want setOnItemClickListener instead
08-04 04:14:26.351: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(8882):     at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2663)
08-04 04:14:26.351: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(8882):     at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2679)
08-04 04:14:26.351: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(8882):     at android.app.ActivityThread.access$2300(ActivityThread.java:125)
08-04 04:14:26.351: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(8882):     at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2033)
08-04 04:14:26.351: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(8882):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
08-04 04:14:26.351: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(8882):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
08-04 04:14:26.351: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(8882):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4627)
08-04 04:14:26.351: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(8882):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
08-04 04:14:26.351: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(8882):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521)
08-04 04:14:26.351: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(8882):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:868)
08-04 04:14:26.351: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(8882):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:626)
08-04 04:14:26.351: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(8882):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
08-04 04:14:26.351: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(8882): Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Don't call setOnClickListener for an AdapterView. You probably want setOnItemClickListener instead
08-04 04:14:26.351: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(8882):     at android.widget.AdapterView.setOnClickListener(AdapterView.java:750)
08-04 04:14:26.351: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(8882):     at hypenyte.bdutcher.promopost.HomePageActivity.onCreate(HomePageActivity.java:58)
08-04 04:14:26.351: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(8882):     at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1047)
08-04 04:14:26.351: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(8882):     at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2627)
08-04 04:14:26.351: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(8882):     ... 11 more

I saw that it said I probably want setOnItemClickListener which is originally what I had coded it as, but that it wouldn't work since eclipse told me my code was wrong with it.

Answer 1

You need to use setOnItemClickListener()

and then new android.widget.AdapterView.OnItemClickListener()

not new View.OnItemClickListener()