Duh! I see. The existing was specifying the image as the background of a regular Button. I'll experiment with ImageButton.
On Oct 5, 4:46 pm, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 5:40 PM, DanH <[email protected]> wrote: > > Kind of a newbie question, I suppose: > > > I've got a horizontal layout with Button, SeekBar, Button. I'd like > > the actual space (and active area) of the button to be somewhat wider > > than the image (a round dot) used for the button. > > > So I tried setting paddingLeft and paddingRight on the button. > > > But what I got was the round dot stretched into an oval. > > > How would I increase the width of the button without stretching the > > image? > > If the Button is really an ImageButton, find an android:scaleType > value that fits your needs (center or centerInside, I would guess, but > I haven't fussed with these values). > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons > Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://github.com/commonsguyhttp://commonsware.com/blog|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Android Training in London:http://skillsmatter.com/go/os-mobile-server -- 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
