onWindowFocusedChange works but its pure chance. As I said, you should
use the ViewTreeObserver, that's what it's meant for.
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 2:32 AM, erkenbrandroid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Did it! Thanks Romain! :)
>
> For other people having the same trouble, the trick is to use the
> onWindowFocusChanged(boolean hasWindowFocus) class like in this
> example :
>
> public void onWindowFocusChanged(boolean hasWindowFocus) {
>
> int maxButton; // I save the biggest button width in this variable
>
> Button testButton = (Button)findViewById(R.id.test); // button 1
> Button testButton2 = (Button)findViewById(R.id.test2); // button 2
> Button testButton3 = (Button)findViewById(R.id.test3); // button 3
>
> maxButton=testButton.getWidth(); // I put button 1's width into
> maxButton
> if(testButton2.getWidth() > maxButton) { // If button 2's width is
> bigger
> maxButton = testButton2.getWidth(); // maxButton gets button 2's width
> testButton3.setText("Button 2 is bigger than button 1!");
> }
>
> else
> testButton3.setText("Button 1 is bigger than button 2!");
>
> }
>
>
> On Sep 27, 12:12 am, "Romain Guy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> You can use a ViewTreeObserver. Look at the documentation of the
>> android.view.View class for more information.
>>
>> On Sep 26, 2008 10:42 AM, "erkenbrandroid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Hello everyone!
>>
>> I need a bit of help for an app I am trying to develop.
>>
>> I've got a main screen with a couple of buttons on it.
>>
>> What I would like to do is get the width of those buttons before they
>> are actually drawn on the screen. Their width is variable, as theyr
>> are defined as "wrap_content" in my main.xml
>>
>> I tried to get the buttons' width in the methods onCreate() and
>> onStart() but all I get is a 0 measure, obviously because their width
>> can't be measured yet.
>>
>> Do you know a way to do that?
>>
>> this is an example of the code at the moment :
>>
>> public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
>>
>> int maxButton; // I save the biggest button width in this variable
>>
>> Button testButton = (Button)findViewById(R.id.test); // button 1
>> Button testButton2 = (Button)findViewById(R.id.test2); // button 2
>> Button testButton3 = (Button)findViewById(R.id.test3); // button 3
>>
>> maxButton=testButton.getWidth(); // I put button 1's width into
>> maxButton
>> if(testButton2.getWidth() > maxButton) { // If button 2's width is
>> bigger
>> maxButton = testButton2.getWidth(); // maxButton gets button 2's width
>> testButton3.setText("Button 2 is bigger than button 1!");}
>>
>> else
>> testButton3.setText("Button 1 is bigger than button 2!");
>>
>> }
>>
>> Thanks a lot,
>> Erken
> >
>
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