Thanks for the suggestions. This at least gives me somewhere to start! On Jun 4, 10:44 am, Lance Nanek <[email protected]> wrote: > Overlapping things in Android is pretty trivial. For example, when you > put multiple children in a FrameLayout, they are all shown on top of > each other as per the > documentation:http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/FrameLayout.html > > Another method is the Toast utility for showing text messages on top > of everything > else:http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/Toast.html > > And of course dialogs are another way to show a window of content on > top of another > screen:http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/dialogs.html > > It isn't far enough along that I've put any effort into cleaning up > the code/XML, but you can see the FrameLayout method being used to > compose layers of a character and controls > here:http://code.google.com/p/growing-phone-pet/source/browse/trunk/res/la... > > There's a FrameLayout there explicitly, but the PetView that is > composing the different images that make up the scenery and character > is also a subclass of FrameLayout. > > On Jun 4, 12:10 am, EwanG <[email protected]> wrote: > > > OK, so... question was too broad? No such examples exist? No one here > > who would be interested in such a thing if it were written? :-) > > > On May 30, 10:04 pm, EwanG <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I am looking for an example of how to setup a screen with a > > > background, an overlay image (my character), and over that a frame > > > that sometimes has text, and sometimes has menu options. > > > > To make myself clearer, as I suggest in the title I'm trying to create > > > aVisualNovelfor Android. Something like I've done in Flash and > > > using RenPy, but with mobile sensibilities (make the buttons more > > > touch friendly, use the accelerator for certain inputs, etc). > > > > Any good, publicly available source code I should check out? I have > > > written one previous Android Program (Mars Lander which I gather is > > > still floating about), but this is different enough I think I need a > > > bit of help. > > > > Thanks in advance!
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