Android Question I am puzzled by a comment in the ExternalStorage example

agraham

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In the ExternalStorage example
In the Sub ListView1_ItemClick there is this code fragment with a comment that I cannot see a reason for.
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Private Sub ListView1_ItemClick (Position As Int, Value As Object)
    Dim f As ExternalFile = Value
    If f = UpItem Then
         '....        
    Else
        'The ExternalFile returned from ListFiles cannot be used directly.
        'We need to first call FindFile.
        f = Storage.FindFile(GetCurrentFolder, f.Name)
        ' ''''
    End If
End Sub
Is/was there a reason for not using the ExternalFile instance from ListFiles as it seems to work fine in my testing so far.
 

agraham

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Something just popped up from the depths of my memory about this. There was a bug in the original ExternalStorage class that I had a hard time convincing Erel was actually there. It resulted in all the ExternalFile instances in ListFiles having their Native fields pointing to the same JavaObject. See post#15 here
Perhaps Erel added the FindFile call to the example to overcome this bug which made the ExternalFile instances in ListFiles unusable and was eventually fixed.
 
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