[android help] Trying to start an activity is causing an exception to be thrown, unsure why

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Here is the code: public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) { if (convertView == null) { convertView = new ExpenseIcon(context); ((ExpenseIcon) convertView) .setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { System.out.println("Expense Icon Clicked"); Intent a = new Intent(context, ExpenseInput.class); a.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP); context.startActivity(a); } }); } if (image == null) image = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(context.getResources(), R.drawable.dollar); ((ExpenseIcon)convertView).setImageBitmap(image); return convertView; } When I click on the ExpenseIcon button I get an exception thrown at the line context.startActivity(a): 04-28 11:04:53.100: D/AndroidRuntime(24962): Shutting down VM 04-28 11:04:53.100: W/dalvikvm(24962): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x41ebc930) 04-28 11:04:53.130: E/AndroidRuntime(24962): FATAL EXCEPTION: main 04-28 11:04:53.130: E/AndroidRuntime(24962): android.util.AndroidRuntimeException: Calling startActivity() from outside of an Activity context requires the FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK flag. Is this really what you want? 04-28 11:04:53.130: E/AndroidRuntime(24962): at android.app.ContextImpl.startActivity(ContextImpl.java:944) 04-28 11:04:53.130: E/AndroidRuntime(24962): at android.app.ContextImpl.startActivity(ContextImpl.java:931) 04-28 11:04:53.130: E/AndroidRuntime(24962): at android.content.ContextWrapper.startActivity(ContextWrapper.java:284) 04-28 11:04:53.130: E/AndroidRuntime(24962): at com.example.mytestapp.controls.ExpenseIconGridGenerate$1.onClick(ExpenseIconGridGenerate.java:63) 04-28 11:04:53.130: E/AndroidRuntime(24962): at android.view.View.performClick(View.java:4204) 04-28 11:04:53.130: E/AndroidRuntime(24962): at android.view.View$PerformClick.run(View.java:17355) 04-28 11:04:53.130: E/AndroidRuntime(24962): at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:725) 04-28 11:04:53.130: E/AndroidRuntime(24962): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92) 04-28 11:04:53.130: E/AndroidRuntime(24962): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137) 04-28 11:04:53.130: E/AndroidRuntime(24962): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5041) 04-28 11:04:53.130: E/AndroidRuntime(24962): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) 04-28 11:04:53.130: E/AndroidRuntime(24962): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511) 04-28 11:04:53.130: E/AndroidRuntime(24962): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:793) 04-28 11:04:53.130: E/AndroidRuntime(24962): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:560) 04-28 11:04:53.130: E/AndroidRuntime(24962): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method) I'm unsure why and not sure how to fix... asked 36 mins ago

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