Is there a way to disable all the items in a specific layout programmatically?

Question

I have A game to which I recently added a global high score functionality which made a lot of people upset so I want to add the option of disabling it. What I did was this:

Answer 1

Apparently the correct way to do it is by using preferences... I'm reading about it now, but I think that's what people should use if they are trying to implement something like that check out the following links for more information on this:

http://android-journey.blogspot.com/2010/01/for-almost-any-application-we-need-to.html and developer.android.com/resources/samples/ApiDemos/src/com/example/android/apis/app/MyPreference.html developer.android.com/reference/android/preference/Preference.html