I was going to go that route but SeekBar does 99% of what I need. You guys did most of the work, keeping the moving part horizontally stable, animations, etc. I literally had to add 6 lines of code to get what I needed logically and then add some style.
I should have made the question clearer. The meat of the question is about layer-lists with bitmaps. Which would be the same if I just wanted to style a horizontal progress bar with an image. So is it expected that the gravity attribute be ignored or do I need to specify something elsewhere to not have the images repeating? Thanks, Nick On Feb 26, 6:38 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > The seek bar is not a slide to unlock UI. Honestly, write your own custom > view for this. > > > > > > > > > > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 10:38 AM, nkijak <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm trying to build a seek bar with text in/"under" it to make > > something akin to the "slide to unlock" bar on the iPhone. I figured > > I'd change the style of the seek bar and added: > > <layer-list> > > ... > > <item android:id="@android:id/background"> > > <layer-list> > > <item> > > <shape> > > <corners android:radius="10dip" /> > > <gradient > > android:startColor="#88747674" > > android:centerColor="#885a5d5a" > > android:centerY="0.25" > > android:endColor="#889d9e9d" > > android:angle="270" > > /> > > </shape> > > </item> > > <item> > > <bitmap > > android:src="@drawable/slide_to_finish_label" > > android:gravity="fill_horizontal"/> > > </item> > > </layer-list> > > </item> > > ... > > </layer-list> > > > slide_to_finish_label is a 9-patch PNG. The default tile mode is > > listed as none. When I use this nested layer-list as the background > > of my app it works as I expect. My bitmap shows up stretched side to > > side but not up and down. When I use this as the style for the seek > > bar the bitmap shows up not stretched and repeating. > > > Changing the gravity attribute has no affect on the repeating. I > > thought it might have something to do with the nesting of the layer > > list, like that the item in the parent-list is being repeated. The > > guide on Drawable Resources seemingly warns on this issue and suggests > > using a bitmap to control stretching and repeating but even when I > > reduce the item to just a bitmap (not a nested layer-list) gravity > > still has no affect. > > > -- > > 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 > > -- > 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. All such > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and > answer them. -- 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
