For whatever reason, this is a pet peeve of some of the core Android development team. There have been a number of posts where developers have requested the ability to programmatically highlight objects as if the track ball was used to select them but the answer is that this is impossible in "touch mode" which is entered whenever the user touches the screen. The core Android developers claim that highlighting objects programmatically will present a confusing user experience, so they're not going to let developers do it. As far as I know, your only alternative is to make your own View that behaves like you want it to, but that will be frowned upon: http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/70535c9e36337aab
--Ben On Sep 17, 12:05 pm, k_pip_k <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a GridView with a BaseAdapter that cycles through the elements > making views for each element or cell in the grid. > > What I would like to do is create a clickable image/button, and when > the user clicks or touches it, for it to remain clicked and > highlighted so that they make click on several if they so choose. > > I have tried, ImageButtons, Buttons, ImageViews, LayerDrawables(with a > swapable background color drawable), ToggleButtons, CheckBoxes, > derived my own CompoundButton, but nothing seems to work. > > I was a teeny bit successful with a ImageButton where I could create > it selected, but if the user clicked on it, I couldn't get that visual > state back. > > Any help is appreciated. I can post code if you like. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" 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-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
