Hi Zia, Sorry the video about custom views didn't help. I'm struggling to understand them myself. Have you read the page at
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/custom-components.html that talks about how the custom view in the Notepad example would be referenced in XML if it weren't defined as an inner class? - Greg On Jul 29, 7:00 pm, Zia <zia.cha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Greg, > > Thanks for your pointer, but it not really what I am looking for. They > are defining ViewGroup in XML and then using setContentView, which > calls custom components' onCreate(context, AttributeSet) constructor. > I am trying to create CustomButton in Java, and if I try to manually > read the attributes in the constructor, it doesn't work. > > XmlPullParser parser = getResources().getXml > (R.layout.custombutton); > AttributeSet attributes = Xml.asAttributeSet(parser); > > attributes.getAttributeCount() returns -1 here. > > So here I'm trying to read Attributes from XML and use them in the > View constructor. According to their presentation, the alternative > approach is to define custom attributes as styleable, and then use > that to extract the values for custom attributes. In my case, I just > want to read standard Button attributes defined in an XML, not > defining new attributes. Does it make sense? > > Zia > > On Jul 29, 2:09 pm, greg <sep...@eduneer.com> wrote: > > > Have you watched the video at > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAMtKVO2ch8 > > > about creating a custom view? > > > - Greg > > > On Jul 29, 4:46 pm, Zia <zia.cha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I would like to create a widget that can reads its attributes from an > > > XML file onCreate. > > > > I've created a CustomButton that extends Button widget. I would like > > > to define its layout and styling in an XML, such that the widget can > > > be reused across different views, with the same styling attributes. > > > > The notepad sample code does carry some pointers to this problem, > > > however, it defines a XML layout with the component as View, inside > > > LinearLayout, which is not really what I'm trying to achieve here. > > > > Any suggestions or pointers for my question? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Zia --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
