Thanks. The android:layout_weight worked. I gave the scrollview a weight of 1 and the textview and linearlayout a weight of 0 and the scrollview filled out the screen
On Oct 26, 12:23 am, Justin Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
