Neilz wrote: > That's frustrating, as View does some really useful things that I > can't get other view types to do.
That sentence doesn't make a lot of sense to me, considering that View doesn't do anything other than draw a background, AFAICT. > Basically I'm trying to set up a grid of buttons (say 4 * 4 for > example), where the buttons are exactly equal in size, regardless of > the text within them, and together fill the parent view. View is > really good at filling its parent view, when used with layout_weight, > but if I change them to LinearLayout I lose that control - the buttons > start wrapping on the text, etc. > > I don't want to use specific widths and heights, as this won't be > helpful when testing on different devices, but I want the buttons to > naturally fit the available space with equal sizes. > > Any suggestions? Use android:layout_weight to divide up the space among the Buttons in a row and among the LinearLayouts in a column. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy _Beginning Android_ from Apress Now Available! -- 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
