It does matter, 0dip is an optimization. If you use something > 0 then that space will be taken away from other widgets. In this case there's no reason not to use 0dip.
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 7:01 AM, Mike <michaeldouglaskra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This words, thanks. However, it appears to me the value you specify > for the height is an arbitrary one. For example, it doesn't seem to > matter if specify 1dip or 100dip, it still sizes the same. > > I assume what's going on is that the layout_weight="1.0" tells the > layout manager to give as much real estate as possible to the > ScrollView and as little possible to it's sibling Views and you just > need to specify SOMETHING for the height. > > Regards, > > - Mike > > On May 6, 4:35 pm, Romain Guy <romain...@google.com> wrote: >> You set thescrollviewto have a height of wrap_content, which means >> "be as big as you need to be to show your children." What you want >> instead is a height of 1.0 and android:layout_weight="1.0" >> >> >> >> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Mike <michaeldouglaskra...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > OK, I give up. I am trying to create an activity layout that has a >> > top level vertical linear layout like so: >> >> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> >> > <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/ >> > android" >> > android:id="@+id/mainLayout" >> > android:orientation="vertical" >> > android:layout_width="fill_parent" >> > android:layout_height="fill_parent" >> > android:padding="4dp"> >> >> > <TextViewandroid:id="@+id/word" android:layout_width="fill_parent" >> > android:layout_height="wrap_content" >> > android:textSize="32dp" >> > android:textColor="#ffffff" >> > android:textStyle="bold" >> > android:text="Word"/> >> >> > <ScrollViewandroid:layout_width="fill_parent" >> > android:layout_height="wrap_content" >> > android:padding="4dp"> >> >> > <TextViewandroid:id="@+id/wordDefinition" >> > android:layout_width="fill_parent" >> > android:layout_height="wrap_content" >> > android:textColor="#ffffff" >> > android:text="A definition."/> >> > </ScrollView> >> >> > <Button android:id="@+id/backButton" >> > android:layout_width="fill_parent" >> > android:layout_height="wrap_content" >> > android:text="Back" /> >> >> > </LinearLayout> >> >> > This works ok as long as the wordDefinition text isn't very long. >> > But, when I set the text to something very long, it pushes the back >> > button off the bottom of the screen. Why??? Isn't theScrollView >> > supposed to scroll the text in the childTextView? >> >> > I've tried playing with weights (e.g., giving the top text view a >> > weight of .2, the scroll view a weight of .7 and the button a weight >> > of .1, but to no avail. >> >> > What am I doing wrong? >> >> > Regards, >> >> > - Mike >> >> -- >> 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 > > > -- 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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
