Setting Initially checked CheckedTextViews in ListView for choiceMode="multipleChoice"

I am having a really difficult time trying to work with android's ListView multipleChoice mode. Here is what I am trying to do:

I have a "players" button in a game setup screen. When this is clicked it opens another activity with a multipleChoice ListView of all the players in the database in CheckedTextViews. I have this working properly and when you click on a player they will be added or removed from the game via a query to the game_players table.

The problem I am having is in setting up the ListView so that the players that have already been added to the game get checked initially when the activity opens.

I have tried to do this by iterating over the entire list in the ListView activity but this doesn't work because the Views that are not currently visib开发者_开发技巧le can't be accessed to check.

So now I'm trying to do this in my extended SimpleCursorAdapter in bindView but I can't even get this simple code to work:

@Override
public void bindView(View _view, Context _context, Cursor _cursor) {
    String name = c.getString(c.getColumnIndexOrThrow(from[0]));

    this.player = (CheckedTextView)_view.findViewById(to[0]);
    this.player.setText(name);
    this.player.setChecked(true);
}

It correctly sets the player's name with setText(), but I can't get any of the boxes to check in bindView. Is there somewhere else I should be doing this or am I just doing it incorrectly?

Call setItemChecked() on the ListView for each checked position.

I had trouble with this as well and pieced together this solution. I thought about passing the ListView directly into the Adapter, but chose to create an interface instead, to avoid a circular reference between the ListView and the Adapter.

An interface to loosely couple the adapter to the list:

public interface CheckControl {
    public void setChecked(int position, boolean value);
}

Custom Adapter:

private class MyAdapter extends CursorAdapter {
    private CheckControl checkControl;

    public MyAdapter(Context context, Cursor cursor, CheckControl checkControl) {
        super(context, cursor, 0);
        this.checkControl = checkControl;
        ...
    }

    @Override
    public void bindView(View view, Context context, Cursor cursor) {
        ...
        checkControl.setChecked(cursor.getPosition(), cursor.getInt(COL_ENABLED) == 1);
        ...
    }
}

And here's how I use these two elements. In my case I'm extending ListViewFragment, but the same could done in any other class that contains the ListView.

public class MyListFragment extends ListFragment implements LoaderManager.LoaderCallbacks<Cursor> {

    @Override
    public void onActivityCreated(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onActivityCreated(savedInstanceState);
        ....
        CheckControl checkControl = new CheckControl() {
            public void setItemChecked(int position, boolean checked) {
                getListView().setItemChecked(position, checked);
            }
        };
        setListAdapter(new MyAdapter(getActivity(), null, checkControl));

        // Kick off the loader
        getLoaderManager().initLoader(LOADER_1, null, this);
    }
}