Honestly, I haven't met a person who really understands it well. It always seems to be a trial and error process. Layout_gravity seems especially troublesome. Where you swear it should work after the reading the docs and thinking about it, it does not. But it sometimes does. Go figure.
On Aug 31, 1:42 am, William Ferguson <william.ferguson...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks! that worked. > Still don't understand why its not working with a LinearLayout. > > On Aug 31, 1:56 pm, Floaters <puhao7117...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Maybe you can try RelativeLayout... > > > 2010/8/31 William Ferguson <william.ferguson...@gmail.com> > > > > OK, I'm obviously missing something fundamentally simple here. > > > I have a LinearLayout containing 2 buttons. > > > I've coloured the layout background red so I can see that it has > > > expanded to fill its parent. > > > I wanted the BooButton to center horizontally within the layout and > > > the OtherButton to be right justified. > > > But both buttons are on the left of the layout. > > > > What have I done wrong? > > > > <LinearLayout android:id="@+id/buttonBlock" > > > android:orientation="horizontal" > > > android:background="#ff0000" > > > android:layout_width="fill_parent" > > > android:layout_height="wrap_content"> > > > > <Button android:id="@+id/booButton" > > > android:text="Boo" > > > android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal" > > > android:layout_width="wrap_content" > > > android:layout_height="wrap_content"/> > > > > <Button android:id="@+id/otherButton" > > > android:text="Other" > > > android:layout_gravity="right" > > > android:layout_width="wrap_content" > > > android:layout_height="wrap_content"/> > > > </LinearLayout> > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
