Just do the scrolling yourself. You are going to need to do some significant optimizations to be able to efficiently draw a board that size anyway (checking update rects and such to minimize drawing); to have smooth scrolling, you may well need to do more than that, such as having it rendered in an off-screen bitmap and only updating the tiles on the edges as you scroll.
I typically think that, if you are writing a game, stick it in one View (or SurfaceView if appropriate) and do the work yourself. The view hierarchy gives you little advantage for a game. If you do want to try the approach of a ScrollView kind of widget, just copy the code to make your own widget and add horizontal scroll to it following the vertical implementation as a model (and dropping the stuff you probably don't need, such as all of the parts dealing with focus moving around the scrollable region). On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 1:00 PM, acrosser <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks for the suggestion... but ScrollView only scrolls vertically up/ > down, not horizontally left/right. At least that's what my experience > has been trying the ScrollView widget out, and what I have read about > ScrollView. Is there a way to make it scroll left/right as well? > > > On Apr 1, 8:53 am, Streets Of Boston <[email protected]> wrote: > > What about using a ScrollView as your container view?: > > > > LinearLayout > > |-->ScrollView > > |--> SkyView > > > > On Apr 1, 11:49 am, acrosser <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Surely this hasn't stumped the group of brilliant Android > > > developers! :-) Is there any tutorial or reference page someone can > > > point me to? > > > > > On Mar 31, 9:10 am, acrosser <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > In the Android API examples there is a Snake game. This game uses a > > > > class > > > > called SnakeView, which inherits from TileView. > > > > > > I am doing something very similar to this. I am inheriting from > > > > TileView to create a class (SkyView), which will become a square > board > > > > for a board game (similar to the board for Checkers). > > > > > > However, I would like for my game board to be 400x400 pixels in size, > > > > which will be bigger than the screens of some Android devices (such > as > > > > the G1). And I would like for the user to be able to freely scroll > and > > > > drag the board around with their finger (both horizontal and vertical > > > > scrolling/dragging). > > > > > > Can someone please point me in the correct direction for implementing > > > > this? The board must be no smaller than 400x400px in size. And > however > > > > much of the board that can be displayed at once on the screen, should > > > > be displayed > > > > at once. > > > > > > Should I wrap my SkyView widget in an AbsoluteLayout and use > > > > Scrollbars? If so, what Scrollbar properties to I need to use? I > > > > played around with Scrollbars in both directions but couldn't get it > > > > to work. Is there another view layout I should put it inside? Code > > > > examples would be nice! Thanks for the help. I am at a loss with this > > > > one.- Hide quoted text - > > > > > - Show quoted text - > > > -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
