Supposedly I setAlpha of both of them to Transparent in my OnCreate
menu after setting up the button clicks. The transparency is also
supposed to change during the OnSeekBarChanged-->OnProgressChanged
method.

On Jul 23, 2:18 pm, Romain Guy <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't see you do anything with rect1 and rect2??
>
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 2:14 PM,
>
> Erin<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the speedy reply.
>
> > I copied all my code into a new project with the 1.5 SDK but, while
> > I'm not getting any code errors, the rectangles don't change
> > transparency. I've thrown in a bunch of log statements to prove that
> > the code is actually getting to the setAlpha commands but when I run
> > it in the emulator it just shows the rectangles as constantly opaque.
>
> > Any thoughts?
>
> > On Jul 23, 11:55 am, Romain Guy <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> mutate() is available only in Android 1.5, it seems like you are
> >> developing with an older SDK.
>
> >> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:11 AM,
>
> >> Erin<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >> > Hi,
> >> > I'm sorry if I've missed something obvious but here goes.
>
> >> > I'm currently trying to make an android app where when one moves a
> >> > seekbar past a certain value a blue rectangle goes from transparent to
> >> > opaque. This rectangle/value pairing will be repeated for roughly 10
> >> > values in the seekbar. (Picture the AT&T bars being controlled by a
> >> > seekbar). I understand that when I try to change the alpha of my
> >> > rectangles (created from a resource in my drawable folder) I'm
> >> > changing both of them at the same time. I also understand the solution
> >> > to this is by calling mutate on my rectangles. What I'm having trouble
> >> > with is actually accomplishing this.
>
> >> > The error I get is: The method mutate() is undefined for the type
> >> > Drawable (lines 59 and 61).
>
> >> > I've tried changing my rectangles to ImageView and to ShapeDrawable.
> >> > I've also tried modeling it off of the following from one of the
> >> > previous posts but that didn't work either.
> >> > Drawable star = context.getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.star);
> >> >            if (book.isFavorite()) {
> >> >              star.mutate().setAlpha(255); // opaque
> >> >            } else {
> >> >              star.mutate().setAlpha(70); // translucent
>
> >> > Any help would be very, very appreciated.
> >> > Thanks,
> >> > Erin
>
> >> > Below is all of my code:
>
> >> > package com.artificialmuscle.controllers;
>
> >> > import android.app.Activity;
> >> > import android.app.AlertDialog;
> >> > import android.content.Context;
> >> > import android.content.DialogInterface;
> >> > import android.graphics.Canvas;
> >> > import android.graphics.drawable.Drawable;
> >> > import android.graphics.drawable.ShapeDrawable;
> >> > import android.graphics.drawable.shapes.RectShape;
> >> > import android.media.MediaPlayer;
> >> > import android.os.Bundle;
> >> > import android.util.AttributeSet;
> >> > import android.util.Log;
> >> > import android.view.View;
> >> > import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
> >> > import android.widget.Button;
> >> > import android.widget.SeekBar;
> >> > import android.widget.SeekBar.OnSeekBarChangeListener;
>
> >> > public class Controllers extends Activity {
> >> >    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
>
> >> >        private final int OPAQUE = 255;
> >> >        private final int TRANSPARENT = 75;
>
> >> >        private MediaPlayer mp = null;
> >> >        Drawable rect1 = null;
> >> >        Drawable rect2 = null;
>
> >> >   �...@override
> >> >    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
> >> >        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
> >> >        setContentView(R.layout.main);
>
> >> >        Button button1 = (Button)findViewById(R.id.button1);
> >> >        Button button2 = (Button)findViewById(R.id.button2);
> >> >        Button button3 = (Button)findViewById(R.id.button3);
>
> >> >        button1.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener(){
> >> >                public void onClick(View viewParam){createDialogs(1);}});
> >> >        button2.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener(){
> >> >                public void onClick(View viewParam){createDialogs(2);}});
> >> >                button3.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener(){
> >> >                        public void onClick(View 
> >> > viewParam){createDialogs(3);}});
>
> >> >                rect1 = (ShapeDrawable)this.getResources().getDrawable
> >> > (R.drawable.bluerect);
> >> >                rect2 = this.getResources().getDrawable(R.id.rect2);
>
> >> >                // Ignore the different syntax I was only trying
> >> > options
> >> >                rect1.mutate();
> >> >                rect1.setAlpha(TRANSPARENT);
> >> >                rect2.mutate().setAlpha(TRANSPARENT);
>
> >> >            SeekBar mySeekBar = (SeekBar)findViewById(R.id.mySeekBar);
> >> >            mySeekBar.setMax(100);
>
> >> >            OnSeekBarChangeListener myListener = new 
> >> > OnSeekBarChangeListener()
> >> > {
>
> >> >                public void onProgressChanged(SeekBar arg0, int arg1, 
> >> > boolean
> >> > arg2) {
> >> >                                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
>
> >> >                                Log.i("seekbar","seekbar value changed to 
> >> > "+arg1);
>
> >> >                                // play sounds on 10, 20.. 90
> >> >                                if (arg1%10 == 0) {
> >> >                                        if (mp != null) {
> >> >                                                mp.stop();
> >> >                                                mp.release();
> >> >                                        }
> >> >                                        mp = 
> >> > MediaPlayer.create(Controllers.this, R.raw.sine25hz20ms);
> >> >                                        mp.start();
> >> >                                }
>
> >> >                                //if (arg1 == 10)Log.i("rectangle","I am 
> >> > at 10!!!");
>
> >> >                                if (arg1 >= 10) 
> >> > {rect1.setAlpha(OPAQUE);}// Log.i("rectangle","set
> >> > rect 1");}
> >> >                                else rect1.setAlpha(TRANSPARENT);
>
> >> >                                if (arg1 >= 20) 
> >> > {rect2.setAlpha(OPAQUE);}//Log.i("rectangle","set
> >> > rect 2");}
> >> >                                else rect2.setAlpha(TRANSPARENT);
> >> >                        }
>
> >> >                        public void onStartTrackingTouch(SeekBar seekBar) 
> >> > {
> >> >                                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
>
> >> >                        }
>
> >> >                        public void onStopTrackingTouch(SeekBar seekBar) {
> >> >                                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
>
> >> >                        }};
>
> >> >            mySeekBar.setOnSeekBarChangeListener(myListener);
>
> >> >    }
>
> >> >    public void createDialogs(int dialogID){
> >> >        AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder
> >> > (Controllers.this);
>
> >> >        //if (dialogID == 1)
> >> >        switch (dialogID)
> >> >        {
> >> >        case 1: builder.setMessage("You clicked Button"+dialogID)
> >> >                           .setNeutralButton("DUH", new 
> >> > DialogInterface.OnClickListener
> >> > () {
> >> >                                        public void 
> >> > onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int id) {
> >> >                                dialog.cancel();
> >> >                           }// onClick
> >> >                                })
> >> >                           .show();
> >> >                        break;
> >> >        case 2:
> >> >                builder.setMessage("You clicked me, I am Button"+dialogID)
> >> >                           .setNeutralButton("DUH", new 
> >> > DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
> >> >                                public void onClick(DialogInterface 
> >> > dialog, int id) {
> >> >                        dialog.cancel();
> >> >                   }// onClick
> >> >                                })
> >> >                           .show();
> >> >                        break;
> >> >        case 3:
> >> >                builder.setMessage("You clicked me")
> >> >                           .setNeutralButton("DUH", new 
> >> > DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
> >> >                                public void onClick(DialogInterface 
> >> > dialog, int id) {
> >> >                        dialog.cancel();
> >> >                   }// onClick
> >> >                                })
> >> >                           .show();
> >> >                        break;
> >> >        default:
> >> >                builder.setMessage("I have no idea what you clicked")
> >> >                           .setNeutralButton("Shit", new 
> >> > DialogInterface.OnClickListener()
> >> > {
> >> >                                public void onClick(DialogInterface 
> >> > dialog, int id) {
> >> >                        dialog.cancel();
> >> >                   }// onClick
> >> >                                })
> >> >                           .show();
> >> >                        break;
> >> >        } // end of switch
> >> >    }
>
> >> >    private class CustomDrawableView extends View {
> >> >        private ShapeDrawable mDrawable;
>
> >> >        public CustomDrawableView(Context
>
> ...
>
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