Hi Keith, Yes, it's a little tricky. And I certainly don't consider the docs to be thorough.... more of a work in progress.
Anyhow, the deal is that layout of the contents of a window happens *after* all the elements are constructed and added to their parent views. It has to be this way, because until you know what components a View contains, and what they contain, and so on, there's no sensible way you can lay it out. Bottom line, if you call getWidth() etc. in a constructor, it will return zero. The procedure is to create all your view elements in the constructor, then wait for your View's onSizeChanged() method to be called -- that's when you first find out your real size, so that's when you set up the sizes of your GUI elements. Be aware too that onSizeChanged() is sometimes called with parameters of zero -- check for this case, and return immediately (so you don't get a divide by zero when calculating your layout, etc.). Some time later it will be called with the real values. Cheers, Ian --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
