Android ListView setSelection() does not seem to work

Question

I have a ListActivity that implements onListItemClick() and calls a doSomething() function of the class. The latter contains l.s

Answer 1

I found that sometimes setSelection will not work because I set attribute "android:height" of listView to "wrap_content".

And the times my App won't work is that when listView become scrollable from non-scrollable.

For example, if my app is "File Browser App". When my list is less than, let's say 6, then it's non-scrollable. Now I return to the parent directory, and it has 11 objects, and I want to set selection to some position, and it won't work here.

to\from    |    Scrollable  | non-Scrollable

Scrollable | O | O( of course )

non-Scrollable | X | O( of course )

I don't want to use post(Runnable), because there will has delay.

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Answer:

You can try to set "android:height" to "match_parent"

God, it spends three days.