Thanks for the input. Actually that will do the trick as I'd like to keep an area on the far right for a sync progress image anyway.
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Streets Of Boston <[email protected]>wrote: > Good luck with that one... i tried but no luck. > > If you think about it, it makes sense that this is not 'easy' to do > with the standard controls (like the text view). > > The text-view knows about its parent (the rel. layout), not about its > siblings (imageview). > If you center the text-view in the parent, the largest extent of the > text-view is the left-and right border of the parent. The text-view > doesn't know about the imageview and where it exactly is and can not > position itself or its text relative to the image-view borders. > > You can also specify instead that the text-view is right-aligned and > is 'to-the-right-of' the imageview and the text inside the text-view > is centered. However, that will put the text off-center, a bit too > much to the right. > > I 'solved' it by putting an equal amount of empty space (an empty > View) to the right of the text-view: > imageview: left aligned, with specific width. > textview: right-of imageview, left-of emptyview. Text is centered. > emptyview: right aligned, with same width as imageview. > This solution is not perfect, since the text will never go all the way > to the right. But then, again, this does make some sense, since the > text doesn't go all the way to the left either. If the text would > extend all the way to the right and not all the way to the left, the > text would appear off-center. > > > On Jul 10, 5:29 pm, Connick <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have a relative layout with an imageview aligned to parent left and a > > textview centered horizontally/vertically in the parent. Is there a way I > > can indicate that the textview should not overlap the imageview should > the > > text be long enough to fill the parent? > > > > Cheers, > > Stace > > -- > 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]<android-developers%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- 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
