I respect your views, but its fine with me even if it works only on my android version as its a personal project. The fact thats its been done (check proof of concepts in OP) and we are unable to do it discomforts even more :(
On Dec 19, 7:12 am, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > The whole point of that window type is the window can't get any user input. > > This is not stuff that third party applications are supposed to do. I > strongly discourage this -- whatever you do here is likely to break in > future versions of the platform. > > > > > > > > > > On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Aco <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi All! I'm trying to create an always-op-top button/clickable-image > > which stays on top of all the windows all the time. The proof of > > concept is here > >http://www.appbrain.com/app/smart-taskbar-%28sidebar%29/com.smart.tas... > > and herehttp://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=865525I'm > > following this example code > > >http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/frameworks/base.git;a=blob;... > > > I have been successful and have a running service now. The service > > displays some text on top left corner of screen all the time while > > user can freely interact with rest of apps in normal manner. What I'm > > doing is subclass ViewGroup and add it to root window manager with > > flag TYPE_SYSTEM_OVERLAY. Now I want to add a button/clickable-image > > in place of this text which can receive touch events on itself. I > > tried overriding "onTouchEvent" for the whole ViewGroup but it does > > not receive any event. How can I receive events only on certain parts > > of my always-on-top view group? Kindly suggest. > > > ====== > > CODE= > > ====== > > > import android.app.Service; > > import android.content.Context; > > import android.content.Intent; > > import android.graphics.Canvas; > > import android.graphics.Paint; > > import android.graphics.PixelFormat; > > import android.os.IBinder; > > import android.view.Gravity; > > import android.view.MotionEvent; > > import android.view.ViewGroup; > > import android.view.WindowManager; > > import android.widget.AbsoluteLayout; > > import android.widget.Button; > > import android.widget.LinearLayout; > > import android.widget.RelativeLayout; > > import android.widget.Toast; > > > public class HUD extends Service { > > HUDView mView; > > > �...@override > > public IBinder onBind(Intent intent) { > > return null; > > } > > > �...@override > > public void onCreate() { > > super.onCreate(); > > Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(),"onCreate", > > Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show(); > > mView = new HUDView(this); > > WindowManager.LayoutParams params = new > > WindowManager.LayoutParams( > > WindowManager.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, > > WindowManager.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, > > > WindowManager.LayoutParams.TYPE_SYSTEM_OVERLAY, > > 0, > > // > > WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_NOT_FOCUSABLE > > // | > > WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_NOT_TOUCHABLE, > > PixelFormat.TRANSLUCENT); > > params.gravity = Gravity.RIGHT | Gravity.TOP; > > params.setTitle("Load Average"); > > WindowManager wm = (WindowManager) > > getSystemService(WINDOW_SERVICE); > > wm.addView(mView, params); > > } > > > �...@override > > public void onDestroy() { > > super.onDestroy(); > > Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(),"onDestroy", > > Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show(); > > if(mView != null) > > { > > ((WindowManager) > > getSystemService(WINDOW_SERVICE)).removeView(mView); > > mView = null; > > } > > } > > } > > > class HUDView extends ViewGroup { > > private Paint mLoadPaint; > > > public HUDView(Context context) { > > super(context); > > Toast.makeText(getContext(),"HUDView", > > Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show(); > > > mLoadPaint = new Paint(); > > mLoadPaint.setAntiAlias(true); > > mLoadPaint.setTextSize(10); > > mLoadPaint.setARGB(255, 255, 0, 0); > > } > > > �...@override > > protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) { > > super.onDraw(canvas); > > canvas.drawText("Hello World", 5, 15, mLoadPaint); > > } > > > �...@override > > protected void onLayout(boolean arg0, int arg1, int arg2, int arg3, > > int arg4) { > > } > > > �...@override > > public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) { > > //return super.onTouchEvent(event); > > Toast.makeText(getContext(),"onTouchEvent", > > Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show(); > > return true; > > } > > } > > > -- > > 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 > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > [email protected] > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. 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