The first direction worked out. All it took was to set the TextView subclass's background to the built-in background used by list items. Makes sense once you know it's a possibility.
android:background="@android:drawable/list_selector_background" The file and code to use it are checked into sourceforge if anybody finds that useful: http://xwords.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/xwords/branches/android_branch/xwords4/android/XWords4/res/layout/list_item.xml?revision=3323&view=markup Thanks, --Eric On Apr 25, 9:14 am, eehouse <eeeeho...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm writing the configuration activity for a game that can have a > variable number of players. Players are listed in the activity and > can be added and removed dynamically. Users click on players to open > a player-details dialog. > > The natural way to display the players list is in a ListView, but the > activity's layout has to be a ScrollView since it's too big to fit on > a screen. Because of that -- because you can't have one scrolling > element inside another -- I can't use ListView for the list of > players. But I want the list of players to have all the ListView-like > behaviors that users expect. > > Is there an accepted recipe for doing this? > > I've tried going in two directions, each of which might work but has a > ways to go still. > > First, I tried using a simple LinearLayout, inserting TextViews as > players are added and adding a custom divider view in between them so > the whole thing looks like a ListView. This lays out correctly, > including dynamically resizing as I add/delete players, but doesn't > behave like a list w.r.t. details like showing focus. > > Second, I've tried subclassing ListView with an implementation that > lays itself out tall enough that there's no scrolling. This shows > focus correctly, but I can't get it to redo the layout when I > add/delete players and, more strangely, OnItemClickListeners aren't > firing. > > (I haven't exhausted options for either approach, but neither will be > easy. And this seems like something that should be easy so I suspect > there's a better approach.) > > BTW, the obvious solution to this is to use a ListView with scrolling > diabled -- forced to always lay itself out full-height. Have I missed > that feature in the documentation? > > Thanks, > > --Eric > > -- > 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 > athttp://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- 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
