BTW Faber - Did get button to resize according to the text, use android:layout_width="wrap_content" and then and explicit padding, ie android:padding="10sp"
On Jan 10, 5:53 pm, Brad A <hashbro...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, it's frustrating to say the least. Hard to understand why it > makes certain UI decisions. BTW - in your code example you put > "wrap_contents". The actual property value is "wrap_content". Not > sure if that was just typed in the email or if you have that error in > your code. > > OK - So I got my initial layout problems fixed by using relative > layouts, but I'm still having problems with getting the TextView to > wrap properly. > > Here is the new layout... > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> > > <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/ > android" > android:layout_width="fill_parent" > android:layout_height="fill_parent" > android:orientation="horizontal"> > <ImageView android:id="@+id/offerImage" android:layout_width="75sp" > android:layout_height="75sp" android:layout_margin="5sp" /> > <RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/ > android" > android:layout_width="wrap_content" > android:layout_height="fill_parent"> > <LinearLayout > xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/ > android" > android:layout_width="wrap_content" > android:layout_height="fill_parent" > android:layout_centerVertical="true" > android:orientation="vertical" > android:background="@drawable/red"> > <TextView android:id="@+id/productName" > android:layout_width="120sp" > android:layout_height="wrap_content" > android:textSize="16sp" > android:textColor="@color/screen_black" > android:background="@drawable/blue"/> > <TextView android:id="@+id/salesPitch" > android:layout_width="wrap_content" > android:layout_height="wrap_content" > android:layout_marginTop="5sp" > android:layout_marginBottom="5sp" > android:textColor="#80ff0000" > android:text="Coming June 2009!"/> > </LinearLayout> > </RelativeLayout> > <RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/ > android" > android:layout_width="wrap_content" > android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:background="@drawable/ > green" > > > <CheckBox android:id="@+id/favorite" > style="?android:attr/starStyle" > android:layout_width="wrap_content" > android:layout_height="wrap_content" > android:layout_marginLeft="5sp" > android:layout_marginRight="5sp" > android:layout_centerVertical="true" > android:layout_alignParentRight="true" /> > <Button android:id="@+id/buy" > android:layout_height="wrap_content" > android:layout_width="70sp" android:autoText="true" > android:layout_toLeftOf="@id/favorite" > android:layout_centerVertical="true" android:background="@drawable/ > yellow" > android:padding="0sp" /> > > </RelativeLayout> > </LinearLayout> > > Right now I have to set a fixed with for the TextView. If I set it to > wrap_content, then long text will blast through the relative layout on > the right, so the button and checkbox are not even shown on the > screen. > I've played with having the right-side layout set to fill_parent, but > that ends up taking way more space than it needs and the TextView > won't even display. > > Here's what I need... > Button and CheckBox on right side get as much space as needed, Image > on left takes space it needs, Layout in the middle uses the remaining > space and wraps text as needed. Doesn't seem like that should be so > hard. > > On Jan 10, 5:04 pm, "Faber Fedor" <faberfe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Brad A <hashbro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Related, when specifying a button, is there a way to just have the > > > button dynamically size to whatever text is holds? > > > In theory 'android:layout_width="wrap_contents"' is supposed to do precisely > > that, but it's not working for me at the mo'. > > > -- > > > Faber Fedor > > Cloud Computing New Jerseyhttp://cloudcomputingnj.com > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
