If you are using XML layouts, there are a couple things you could try... 1) Set the layout to use fill_parent instead of wrap_content 2) Give the layout a weight... android:layout_weight
Thanks, Justin ---------------------------------------------------------------------- There are only 10 types of people in the world... Those who know binary and those who don't. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 7:52 PM, launchpadtt <[email protected]>wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm learning android and I have extremely limited programming > experience or skills. Basically I want to have an activity whose > layout kinda looks like the gmail inbox's layout. I want a textview on > top, and a radio group of radio buttons in the middle and a row of > buttons at the bottom, but I want the radio group to fill the space in > between the text view on top and the row of buttons on the bottom. > > I tried a LinearLayout with a TextView followed by a ScrollView with a > RadioGroup with RadioButtons in it followed by a LinearLayout with the > buttons in it. The moment I added too many radio buttons the linear > layout with the buttons went past the edge of the screen. > > Then I tried the RelativeLayout with the ScrollView below the TextView > and the LinearLayout with the buttons in it having the > android:layout_alignParentBottom set to true. That puts the row of > buttons at the bottom but the scrollview's height reaches the bottom > of the screen and the radio buttons in it show up behind the row of > buttons. > > I assume that I have to accomplish what I want programatically but I > don't really know how to do that. I'm thinking that I have to at some > point get the height of the textview and the linearlayout of buttons > and set the height of the scrollview to height of the screen - (height > of the textview + height of the linearlayout.) And that I'd probably > do that in onDraw or onSizeChanged of the view and I'd have to make a > new class extending textview or relativelayout that would have the new > onSizeChanged that would resize the scrollview. > > Did I mention my limited skills? *sigh* Any assistance would be > appreciated. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
