I think the platform is more appropriate .. I will look into the classes your mentioned .. particularly the IME windows is more tune to what i want ..
-Dan On Feb 4, 10:43 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > Given that you are posting this to both android-developers and > android-platform, I have no idea from what context to answer this. I'll > answer from the android-platform context: > > Typically you would customize the WindowManagerPolicy to do this kind of > thing. Look at PhoneWindowManager, and you can see how it decides to > position the status bar at the top of the screen and put applications below > that. Also in cupcake the IME windows that are at the bottom. You can just > do the same thing to carve out more of the screen. Of course if you are > doing this on a normal HVGA screen, you will need to do a lot of special > stuff to ensure that existing applications can still use all of the space > they need. > > > > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Dan Raaka <[email protected]> wrote: > > > [x-posted to platform/developers groups] > > > Can applications be limited to use certain area of the screen ? > > > eg : > > > ---------------------------- > > | | > > | blank | > > | | > > | ------------------------ | > > | | > > | my app | > > | | > > --------------------------- > > > for example, I want to mandate application to use only bottom half of > > the screen? but the application need not know this !! It could use a > > scroll bar in order to compensate for this reduced height !! > > -- > 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. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
