Custom ListView: separator entries ignore settings

Question

I've created a custom ListView with separators (using this tutorial). It looks and works fine but the separators are still clickable, focusable and able to get a context menu called from. So i've tryied to "shut them up":

...
case TYPE_SEPARATOR:
    convertView.setFocusable(false);
    convertView.setClickable(false);
    convertView.setLongClickable(false);
    break;
        }

return convertView;

But they totally ignore these settings! For testing purposes i used covertView.setBackground(Color.MAGENTA) and it works well. Anyone got an idea what could be wrong?

Answer 1

Assuming your adapter is one that implements BaseAdapter (such as an ArrayAdapter), override the isEnabled() method in the adapter.

@Override
public boolean isEnabled(int position) {
    if (getItemViewType(postion) == TYPE_SEPARATOR) {  // method taken from example
        return false;
    }
    return super.isEnabled(position);
}

To keep track of which items are separators and which are not, keep an ArrayList or some other type of collection that keeps track.