setSelection on a listView in a dialogBox

[sahir contractor]

hi guys,
so i have a dialogBox that pops up with a listView that allows
multiple selection. what im trying to do is have certain of the
entries in the listView be automatically selected ( by which i mean
the little tick mark at the right should be selected when the list
comes up) ... i have literally tried every possible variant of
setSelection including even something called PostDelayed which i was
told would run after a certain delay and then select items for me but
none of them seem to be working ...
any help will be seriously appreciated.
thank you,
Sahir.

[Rodrigo Haragutchi]

is there a reason why you're using listView inside a dialog? If you're ok with just text for each item, you can look at this:

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/dialogs.html

the line just above "creating a ProgressDialog"

Quote:

The second parameter in the setSingleChoiceItems() method is an integer value for the checkedItem, which indicates the zero-based list position of the default selected item. Use "-1" to indicate that no item should be selected by default.

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[sahir contractor]

well i guess the reason im using the listView is because im already in
a dialog box and dont want to spawn another dialog for this list.
So if i have to work with this list view that allows multiple
selection, is there a way to have certain values selected during
startup.
Thanks
Sahir.