Ok I'm going to try it ;) On 16 Dic, 11:31, Kostya Vasilyev <[email protected]> wrote: > Paolo, > > Yes, using a nine-patch drawable background is easy, efficient, and > produces great results. > > Try this: open a layout in XML mode and add this attribute: > > android:background="@android:drawable/toast_frame" > > Think you'll like it :) > > -- Kostya > > 16.12.2010 13:24, Paolo пишет: > > > > > > > ah... and using nine-patch drawable is better than the way I'm > > following? Why should I prefer this way? I'm asking just to > > understand :) > > > On 16 Dic, 11:16, Kostya Vasilyev<[email protected]> wrote: > >> Just use android:background with a nine-patch drawable. No need to > >> subclass. > > >> You can even copy one of Android's nine-patch backgrounds into your > >> project. > > >> Take a look inside the Android SDK directory, then > >> platforms\android-X\data\res\drawable-mdpi (-hdpi). > > >> There are some very nice one in there, in particular toast_frame.9.png, > >> zoom_plate, panel_background, etc. > > >> -- Kostya > > >> 16.12.2010 13:03, Paolo пишет: > > >>> Because I'd like to draw something similar to this. > >>>http://pocketjourney.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/goal.gif?w=500 > >>> On 16 Dic, 10:53, Zsolt Vasvari<[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> Why would you need to extend RelativeLayout just to change the > >>>> background? > >>>> On Dec 16, 5:36 pm, Paolo<[email protected]> wrote: > >>>>> Hi! > >>>>> I'm trying to customize a RelativeLayout on order to show a nice > >>>>> trasparent black content box. So my class has extended RelativeLayout > >>>>> and has overridden the onDraw() method, but nothing appears in the > >>>>> Eclipse layout editor; the same happens if I try to run my app on the > >>>>> device. > >>>>> I read I have to override dispatchDraw() and this works. I can see my > >>>>> custom layout in the editor, but I'm not able to add child view to the > >>>>> layout. Or better... I add a child in my layout from XML, but I can't > >>>>> see it on the Eclipse layout editor. In this case if I run the app on > >>>>> the device I see my layout drawn not correctly.. only a part of it is > >>>>> drawn or it appears cut. > >>>>> Why? What am I wrong? > >> -- > >> Kostya Vasilyev -- WiFi Manager + pretty widget > >> --http://kmansoft.wordpress.com > > -- > Kostya Vasilyev -- WiFi Manager + pretty widget > --http://kmansoft.wordpress.com
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