Ummm, What do you mean by modify that default? All the views take of a
rectangular estate area. This is generally the way how widgets are laid out
virtually everywhere. Even while you are designing HTML pages, everything is
a rectangle.

The boundaries of a view is always a rectangle.

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 9:22 AM, DanH <danhi...@ieee.org> wrote:

> I know that's the default.  But other platforms have a way to modify
> that default.
>
> On Oct 12, 10:41 pm, Kumar Bibek <coomar....@gmail.com> wrote:
> > By default it is a rectangle. All the views are rectangles as well. As
> Mark
> > said, they look different because of the backgrounds.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 9:02 AM, DanH <danhi...@ieee.org> wrote:
> > > That is an interesting question:  I haven't run across any way in
> > > Android to control the shape of the sensitive area of a button.  Is it
> > > always a rectangle, or can it be made circular, triangular, etc, by
> > > making it conform to the shape of an image?
> >
> > > On Oct 11, 6:03 pm, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote:
> > > > A button is shaped like a button courtesy of its background. In the
> > > > case of a button, that is a StateListDrawable consisting of a series
> > > > of nine-patch (stretchable) PNG files representing different states
> > > > (normal, pressed, focused, disabled, etc.).
> >
> > > > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Dancing Fingers <batym...@gmail.com
> >
> > > wrote:
> > > > > Hi guys,
> > > > > I'm working on my own Hexagonal button which works in JAVA.  I was
> > > > > studying Android Button.java:
> >
> > > > > @RemoteView
> > > > > public class Button extends TextView {
> > > > >    public Button(Context context) {
> > > > >        this(context, null);
> > > > >    }
> >
> > > > >    public Button(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
> > > > >        this(context, attrs,
> com.android.internal.R.attr.buttonStyle);
> > > > >    }
> >
> > > > >    public Button(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle)
> {
> > > > >        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
> > > > >    }
> > > > > }
> >
> > > > > I don't understand where it gets it shape.  If you're adding an
> > > > > anClickListener of does button know the geometry that's within it's
> > > > > boundries?
> >
> > > > > Any enlightenment would be appreciated.
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