Without seeing your code it's hard to know what's going on, but background drawables are never drawn in the foreground.
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Bob Kerns <[email protected]> wrote: > The right thing to do is to adjust your 9patch with the 9patch tool to > indicate what the padding should be. Those are those pixels on the > right and bottom. > > I haven't actually tried setting them to be wider than the stretchable > area, but I'd expect it to work. > > But the other issue I've found is that it seems it doesn't actually > draw 9PatchDrawables in the background, but rather the foreground! > Thus, my translucent stretchable area was being drawn on top of my > window content. I made that transparent, but the actual background in > another layer behind the content as a graphic. It makes sort of a > twisted sense, but: > > 1) It's not documented > 2) It's so counterintuitive I consider it a bug on those grounds > alone. > > The twisted sense that it makes is that it enables using the > background with a 9patch to implement borders with clipping, by > drawing them on top of the content. And, in fact, moving the graphic > to the background DID result in content on top of border. > > But Jeez, Louise....don't use background to draw in the foreground! > > On Feb 6, 10:31 am, Mark Nuetzmann <[email protected]> wrote: >> After a quick search I saw some comments of "what not to do"... but in >> my case it WORKED PERFECT. Rather than setting the layout background >> in the xml as I had originally done (and what I would have preferred >> to do). I took a little of the code from another post and set the >> background in code. This worked awesome. >> >> Bitmap bkBitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(), >> R.drawable.content_bg); >> NinePatchDrawable bkDrawable = new NinePatchDrawable(bkBitmap, >> bkBitmap.getNinePatchChunk(), new Rect(0,0,0,0), null); >> bkDrawable.setAlpha(96); >> >> findViewById(R.id.content_container).setBackgroundDrawable(bkDrawable); >> >> When I do this the LinearLayout is getting a padding rect of (0,0,0,0) >> from its background and lays out its child views like normal; exactly >> what I wanted. The background 9-patch now acts only as a background >> rather than a constraint on the contents of the LinearLayout. >> >> Regards, >> Mark >> >> On Feb 6, 12:15 pm, Mark Nuetzmann <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> > I have a LinearLayout that I set a background to a 9-patch drawable. >> > It appears that the LinearLayout is somehow forcing its contents to >> > display within the center space defined by its background. This is >> > really creating problems as the content is being "scrunched" or >> > compressed to a much smaller space that what I anticipated. I do not >> > have any margins or padding set on the LinearLayout so I know the only >> > place it could be getting this is from the background. All I wanted >> > was for the background to be a background and not some how contribute >> > to how the LinearLayout laid out its views. Is there a way to tell >> > the LinearLayout NOT to pull sizing information from its background? >> > I see that the class NinePatchDrawable has a getPadding() but NO >> > setPadding(). I assume that the LinearLayout is getting the padding >> > from NinePatchDrawable and using that to contrain the contents of the >> > layout to a smaller area. Can I override this without subclassing >> > this class? >> >> > Regards, >> > Mark > > -- > 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 > -- 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
