Does your ListView have a width set to fill_parent?
On Oct 26, 5:30 pm, skyhigh <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have an application which has some activities that display a single
> list and extends ListActivity. The application also has other
> activities that have several things on the screen in addition to a
> list, so these activity classes use extends Activity and then include
> a ListView in the layout file.
>
> I have noticed that ListActivity provides different default behavior
> than the behavior provided by putting ListView in a layout file.
>
> When the list is presented on the screen and the user touches an item
> in the list the active area on the screen which responds to the touch
> is different for ListActivity vs ListView. For ListActivity I can
> touch anywhere on the row and it will respond, but for ListView I must
> touch an area of the row where a word is displayed.
>
> With ListView if the row is blank on the right side of the screen
> (because the word or phrase is short), when I touch the right side of
> the row nothing happens. It only responds to touches on the word
> itself.
>
> With ListActivity I can touch the blank area of the row and it works
> fine.
>
> I think that this must be the result of ListActivity changing some
> setting on the list which is not provided as a default by ListView.
> The behavior of responding to a touch anywhere on the row is much
> nicer than the default behavior I get when using ListView. With
> ListView, it is very annoying to touch the row but get no response
> because I didn't touch the word itself.
>
> Does anyone know why these behave differently? Does anyone know what
> setting I should change on ListView to get the nicer behavior that is
> the default with ListActivity?
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