All of the window control is does through the WindowManager.LayoutParams; there are APIs on Window (retrieved with Dialog.getWindow()) for manipulating them.
http://code.google.com/android/reference/android/view/WindowManager.LayoutParams.html In particular, the things it sounds like you want are: http://code.google.com/android/reference/android/view/WindowManager.LayoutParams.html#FLAG_NOT_TOUCH_MODAL http://code.google.com/android/reference/android/view/WindowManager.LayoutParams.html#gravity On Mar 24, 4:40 pm, Cheryl Sedota <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a keyboard activity that slides in from the bottom of the > screen. I would like the activity that is displayed behind/above the > keyboard window to receive touch events even when the keyboard > activity view is visible (basically I don't want the keyboard activity > to eat touch events if the events don't occur within the floating > keyboard activity window's boundaries). Please help me figure out how > to accomplish this. > > The keyboard activity's content view is set to: > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> > <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/ > android" > android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_width="fill_parent" > android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:gravity="bottom" > android:layoutAnimation="@anim/layout_anim_slide_up"> > <ImageView android:layout_width="wrap_content" > android:layout_height="wrap_content" > android:src="@drawable/keyboard1" /> > </LinearLayout> > > The only way I could get the window to stay anchored to the bottom of > the screen without setting the linear layout's height to "fill_parent" > was to add the keyboard view like this (see below) instead of using > setContentView(R.layout.keyboard1): > > View keyboardView = > getViewInflate().inflate(R.layout.keyboard1, null, null); > WindowManager.LayoutParams wlp = getWindow().getAttributes(); > wlp.gravity = Gravity.BOTTOM; > getWindow().addContentView(keyboardView, wlp); > > The following theme is applied to the keyboard activity (because I am > using the translucent background, I can tell for sure that the window > is not covering the entire screen because behind the small keyboard > activity window, I can still clearly see the activity that was in the > foreground before the keyboard was launched. > > <resources> > <!-- Base application theme is the default theme. --> > <style name="Theme" parent="android:Theme"> > </style> > > <!-- Base application theme is the dark theme. --> > <style name="Theme.Keyboard"> > <item name="android:textSize">18sp</item> > <item name="android:textColor">#fff</item> > <item name="android:textStyle">normal</item> > <item name="android:windowBackground">@drawable/ > translucent_background</item> > <item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item> > <item name="android:windowIsFloating">true</item> > <item name="android:gravity">bottom</item> > </style> > > </resources> > > Thanks!! > Cheryl --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] Announcing the new M5 SDK! http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/02/android-sdk-m5-rc14-now-available.html For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
