Great suggestion, thanks.
On Feb 10, 4:47 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote:
> Then just write your own layout manager that does your own special
> positioning algorithm. This is likely to be faster than using
> AbsoluteLayout, anyway, especially if the screen dimensions change on you
> and you need to do a relayout.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Sundog <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > 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
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> 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.
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