Maybe you could explicitly call the drawing method of the View passing in your own Canvas?
On Sunday, January 6, 2013 6:21:11 AM UTC-6, Justin Buser wrote: > > I agree that people deserve respect, however I don’t feel that my response > was disrespectful. If I was curt it was only because I felt that the > situation warranted it. Furthermore, I clearly and succinctly explained > exactly why his response was incorrect and misleading as well as why I > found his answer so frustrating so I’m not really sure how to respond to > this. Scolding me for scolding someone seems kind of hypocritical, > especially when you have no point. > > > > *From:* [email protected] <javascript:> [mailto: > [email protected] <javascript:>] *On Behalf Of *James Black > *Sent:* Sunday, November 18, 2012 7:20 AM > *To:* [email protected] <javascript:> > *Subject:* Re: [android-developers] Convert a view (layout) to a Bitmap > > > > People deserve respect when not being nice, but if you want to attack Guy > I would suggest you watch him on YouTube and as mentioned, Google him. > > He helps answer questions to share from his depth of knowledge, so if you > factually disagree be to the point and show where he erred, without the > attacks. > > On Nov 17, 2012 3:19 PM, "Justin Buser" <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > I don't understand why I keep finding different posts by you > about forcing layout passes. The View instance this person is referring > would never go through a layout pass, regardless of the point at which his > code was executed for several reasons, most notably because it's never even > added to the display list. Additionally, even if it *was* added to the > Window correctly, calling layout() would not "force the layout", you would > call forceLayout() for that but even that would be pointless because the > View doesn't have a layout assigned to it or even have anything to layout > in the first place. > > > > The truly aggravating thing however is the fact that neither the question > itself, nor the *actual* answer ever have anything to do with "forcing > layouts". Do you understand that when other people come across > invalid/irrelevant information like this and believe it (if not because you > claim to be a developer then simply because they don't know any better) > then it's no longer a forgivable case of simply being wrong about > something. At that point you are responsible for every adverse reaction > your bad information results in. Every application crash/exception > thrown/hour lost/dead kitten/etc... that occurs when someone tries your > solution and it doesn't work is on your head. > > > > As a human being you should feel morally obligated to not present anything > as fact unless you are 100% confident that it is indeed so. At the very > least you should have first hand experience as it pertains to the > information you are providing and if not then test / verify it before hand. > Although each individual failure in this may seem relatively > insignificant, the aggregate result will ultimately have a negative impact > on our evolutionary progress as a species. As far fetched as you may find > this to be the vast multitude of problems that threaten our very existence > are at some level caused by ignorance, as such it should not be taken > lightly at *any* level. > > > On Monday, November 17, 2008 11:20:41 AM UTC-5, Romain Guy wrote: > > Hi, > > If you do this in onCreate(), then the View didn't go through a layout > pass yet, so its size is null (0 by 0 pixels.) You need to either wait > for the first layout, or force the layout by calling layout() on the > View. > > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 2:34 AM, Jose Cortes <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hello everybody. > > > > I am working with OpenGL and Android, and I was wondering if there is > > any way to create a Bitmap or a Drawable using a view (layout). The > > purpose is to use this Bitmap as Texture for an OpenGL figure. > > > > All I have untill now is: > > > > ** I create a new view from the context and the Id. > > > > View l = new View(context); > > > > l.findViewById(R.layout.main); > > > > ** I used DrawingCache...but dont know if it is well used: > > > > l.setDrawingCacheEnabled(true); > > > > Bitmap bmp = l.getDrawingCache(); > > > > this bmp is null... > > > > > > Any idea? > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > > -- > Romain Guy > www.curious-creature.org > > -- > 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]<javascript:> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] <javascript:> > 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]<javascript:> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] <javascript:> > 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. 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