It used to be called something like that but we decided to unify the names across all widgets.
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Streets Of Boston <[email protected]> wrote: > > As a side-note: I think the TextView's (and EditText) 'gravity' should > have been called 'alignment'. It's called that way in most UI's. :=) > > > On May 14, 10:54 am, Romain Guy <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Well, first of all RelativeLayout ignores layout_gravity. Then you >> need to know that gravity means "apply gravity to the content of this >> view" whereas layout_gravity means "apply gravity to this view within >> its parent." So on a TextView, gravity will align the text within the >> bounds of the TextView whereas layout_gravity will align the TextView >> within the bounds of its parent. >> >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 5:31 AM, Matthias <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> >> > I think I've lost enough hair over this, so now I'll ask. What is the >> > difference between those attributes? According to the documentation of >> > R.attr, there isn't any difference (doc text is exactly the same, see >> >http://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.attr.html), but >> > apparently, that's simply not true. For example, the gravity attribute >> > can be used on EditText to set the text alignment (e.g. left, center, >> > right). >> >> > I often found that neither of them work to align a view at all. For >> > example, I need to float two text views in a relative layout, one >> > going to the left below a title bar, the other going to the right >> > below the title bar. So what I did was this: >> >> > <RelativeLayout >> > xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"; >> > android:layout_width="fill_parent" >> > android:layout_height="fill_parent"> >> >> > <!-- the title bar --> >> > <ImageView ... >> > </ImageView> >> >> > <TextView android:id="@+id/left_text" >> > android:layout_below="@id/title_bar" >> > android:layout_gravity="left" >> > ... >> > /> >> >> > <TextView android:id="@+id/right_text" >> > android:layout_below="@id/title_bar" >> > android:layout_gravity="right" >> > ... >> > /> >> >> > </RelativeLayout> >> >> > That doesn't work, however. The left text is indeed aligned to the >> > left inside its parent (the relative layout), but the right text is >> > not aligned to the right; instead, it's placed directly to the right >> > of the left text. >> >> > Why's that? >> >> > Thanks, >> > Matthias >> >> -- >> Romain Guy >> 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- Hide quoted text - >> >> - Show quoted text - > > > -- Romain Guy 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
