No, use a 9-patch. That said, if you want to actually position the triangle at different places in the border you probably will need to give up on just setting a custom background drawable and have to draw your own background with things positioned where you want.
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Nick Longinow <[email protected]>wrote: > I'm looking for something more like a <shape> where the vertices are > set to like a rectangle, but with one side that has a triangle shape > coming out of it. I believe I create this as a drawable in the XML > layout, and then set the Dialog to use this drawable as the > background. True so far? > > On Mar 27, 11:01 pm, Hari Edo <[email protected]> wrote: > > If you mean like the SMS app, you can do that with a .9.png > > image file, also called a "Nine Patch." > > > > http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/graphics/2d-graphics.html#n... > > > > On Mar 27, 10:34 pm, Nick Longinow <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Like a balloon-style dialog, with one side of the dialog having a > > > triangle coming out of it so that the dialog appears to point to some > > > portion of the screen. I've seen these in alot of apps - what is the > > > basic idea here? Is it use of shapes and themes? Any simple examples > > > out there?- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text - > > -- > 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
