It's a bug in aapt. Where you should normally be able to have up to width/2 horizontal stretch regions, it only allocates enough space for width/4. Your image was 36 pixels wide, so you can have 9, and it would crash on 10 (like your c.9.png image). The issue with draw9patch you mentioned earlier is separate issue, which only affects rendering in draw9patch, but doesn't affect how your ninepatch will look in your app.
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 6:36 PM, craiget <crai...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thank you for the replies. > > Maybe what's causing my confusion is a bug in aapt (or my > environment?) rather than misunderstanding the concept of 9-patch. In > which case I may be posting to the wrong place. > > I've got two files that demonstrate what's happening: > > This first file, Eclipse likes and it successfully gets packaged into > the application and everything is fine. > > http://maladroid.net/b.9.png > > This second file is exactly the same, except it duplicates the pattern > of 1px red bars for one more column. This file seems to cause aapt to > crash. However, it seems like it should be a valid 9-patch. > > http://maladroid.net/c.9.png > > The console shows an error message: > > *** glibc detected *** /home/me/android/android-sdk-linux_x86-1.1_r1/ > tools/aapt: realloc(): invalid old size: 0x09a50770 *** > [2009-03-03 21:21:15 - Test] ======= Backtrace: ========= > ~~~ etc > > > > Any ideas what could be causing that to happen? > > Thanks! > > > > > > > > On Mar 3, 6:28 pm, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote: >> A feature unfortunately added after the name itself was pretty set in stone. >> :) >> >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Romain Guy <romain...@google.com> wrote: >> >> > > Because a ninepatch consists of 9 patches, only 5 of which are scaled, >> > > while the 4 corners are not scaled. An image that has a black top-left >> > > pixel therefore cannot be a ninepatch image. The draw9patch tool >> > > shouldn't even let you set the top-left to black. >> >> > Actually our 9patches really are n-patches. You can have as many >> > stretchable areas as you want. >> >> > -- >> > Romain Guy >> > Android framework engineer >> > romain...@android.com >> >> > 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 >> >> -- >> Dianne Hackborn >> Android framework engineer >> hack...@android.com > - Show quoted text - >> >> 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 android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
