I've got a Motorola Droid. The location values approach 0 or 480 or 854 but never quite get there. The emulator also doesn't ever quite get to the edge of the screen.
- dave On Nov 14, 8:17 pm, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote: > I don't know what device you are running on, but on things like the G1 and > myTouch, the touch screen isn't able to accurately detect locations at the > far edges of the screen, so when you reach that area the location will be > pinned to the very far edge and the flag set. Note that this is referring > to the edge of the -screen-, not wherever your view is. > > > > On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 9:16 AM, davemac <davemac...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I was expecting the getEdgeFlags() method of MotionEvent to tell me > > when a MotionEvent had reached the edge of something, but the value > > returned from getEdgeFlags() is *always* zero. Is this the expected > > behavior? The documentation says that the flags indicate when a touch > > has reached the edge of the display. I've tried this on a real device > > and in the emulator, and the location coordinates never quite reach > > the edge of the display, and getEdgeFlags() always returns 0. By > > "never quite reach" I mean that if dragging a finger off the left edge > > of the display, the smallest X I got was 2. Reaching the edge of the > > view doesn't seem to change the value returned either. > > > I suppose I could set the flags myself using setEdgeFlags() using > > calculations with known dimensions of the object whose edges I care > > about. Is that how it's supposed to be used? Is this broken for now? > > > Thanks for your help. > > > - dave > > > -- > > 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<android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > hack...@android.com > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. 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
