thanks Dianne - yeah I expected someone asking that custom seems to be where I need to go if this is to be messed with at all, and that's what I needed to know
On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > This is basically a special class for that progress spinner design. Which > is now old. In HC the spinner looks different. If you try to hack on > whatever spinner you happen to get from the platform you are running on to > do something different, you will probably fail in one way or another as you > encounter a different platform with a different spinner. > I can't imagine why you need to have it rotate in the other direction, but > if you need something different you should just make your own spinner style > that has nothing to do with whatever is in the platform. > > On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 9:51 AM, B Lyon <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I was looking into a simple way to get the (small) ProgressBar to spin >> counterclockwise, and it seems to come down to the class >> AnimatedRotateDrawable, which looks to be hard-coded to spin clockwise >> - it sets the angle increment to 360/framesCount, with no apparent >> option to change the sign of the increment. Most people probably have >> come to expect that, I guess. >> >> A lot about this (public) class AnimatedRotateDrawable seems to be >> kind of hands-off - two of the attributes are private somehow >> (framesCount and frameDuration), and I couldn't subclass it in a quick >> attempt to see about trying to tweak this behavior (not that >> subclassing would have worked). >> >> In my case, if I am showing the spinning progress bar at all (which I >> don't need to - I think that it's just a nice touch), then I need to >> be able to flip the direction. Before I get off of this little >> distraction for the moment, I was wondering if any one else had played >> with this before. I guess I could just assimilate the class, add >> assumed-to-be trivial changes for the flip option, and then change the >> indeterminate drawable on the progressbar in the code, but I was >> wondering if I'm missing some obviously simpler way. >> >> thx >> >> -- >> 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 -- 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
