Believe me, I see your point, but there are applications this simply won't work for. Mine, for instance, requires up to 144 precisely positioned, size-changing, overlapping-but-not-colocated buttons on the screen (not in a grid), and there simply isn't any other way to do it. I certainly understand the effort to get people to use more structured layouts but there remain a few applications where there simply isn't any other choice.
It would be nice it there were a system-friendly way to determine screen sizes, but not writing the app because there isn't one is not an option. On Feb 10, 2:57 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > The answer is you don't use AbsoluteLayout. Seriously. It is trivial to > place a button at the bottom right corner of the screen with various other > layout managers, and those will take care of doing the right thing for the > actual screen space. > > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 1:03 PM, [email protected] > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > > > > I've read many posts on the topic of screen width and height, but none > > that answer the big question that seems to come up again and again. > > > I have an AbsoluteLayout. I want to place a button in the bottom > > right corner of the screen. How do I get the size of the viewable > > area so that I know where the bottom right of the screen is? > > > Things I've tried: > > > * displayMetrics.heightPixels - but then I have to hard code a guess > > for the status bar size > > * absoluteLayout.getLayoutParams().height - I've never seen reasonable > > numbers coming from this (<= 0) > > * Make the custom view the size of the whole screen, and use the > > canvas object passed into onDraw(), but this object also shows a > > height that doesn't take the status bar into consideration. If I draw > > something at y=479, it is now viewable because it is off the screen. > > > Thank you, > > > Matthew > > -- > 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. All such questions should be posted on public > forums, where I and others can see and answer them.- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
