Thanks, Very strange they don't provide this capability. I'm writing a game where this is crucial.
Anyways, I did have to implement my own view and managed to get the LayerDrawable working to accomplish this. Works pretty good. On Sep 18, 12:39 am, BJP <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/threa... > > --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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
