Apps onKeyDown problems

[aNewGuy]

I'm working on a simple game and I've just added a main menu. The problem is that when i click the "Play" button on my menu, the game launches but it doesn't receive key presses properly. My menu class still receives all key presses unless i press one of the arrow keys. After I press one of the arrow keys my game class starts receiving key presses as I expect it to.

right now the code looks something like this

public class gameTest extends Activity {
    Board mGameBoard;
    private Handler mHandler;

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        
        //setup buttons
        setContentView(R.layout.main);
        final TextView btnPlay = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.mainMenuPlay);
        btnPlay.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            public void onClick(View v) {
                Log.d("main", "button clicked");
                setContentView(mGameBoard);
                mHandler.post(update);
            }
        }); 
        
        mGameBoard = new Board(this);
        mGameBoard.create();
        
        mHandler = new Handler();
    }
    
    private Runnable update = new Runnable() {
        public void run() {
            mWorld.update();
            mHandler.postDelayed(update, (long) (mGameBoard.timeStep*1000));
        }
    };
}

If i remove the button listener and just skip straight to the game view at works as expected ie:

public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        
        //setup buttons
        setContentView(R.layout.main);
        /*
        final TextView btnPlay = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.mainMenuPlay);
        btnPlay.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            public void onClick(View v) {
                Log.d("main", "button clicked");
                setContentView(mGameBoard);
                mHandler.post(update);
            }
        }); 
        */
        mGameBoard = new Board(this);
        mGameBoard.create();
        setContentView(mGameBoard);
        mHandler.post(update);
        
        mHandler = new Handler();
    }

That makes the game catch all key presses fine (though, obviously no menu at the start). The game board class just uses a onkeydown() to catch key press events.

This is my first time working on android so i'm not sure about quite a few things. Anyone know what might be wrong? If you need more info just ask.