[android-developers] Re: left scrollbar

2010-03-29 Thread ABhi
Hi Why don't we have any view that supports both horizontal and vertical scrollbar? What am i supposed to do to show an auditorium layout on Android (which enables user to select particular seat on that auditorium? Regards, Abhishek On Mar 29, 4:36 am, Romain Guy romain...@android.com wrote:

Re: [android-developers] Re: left scrollbar

2010-03-29 Thread emna zeddini
Hi everybody, First of all, I want to thank you so much for the help and support you gave me. Then , I want to inform you that finally I have a scrollbar on the left side. Thank you so much. 2010/3/29 ABhi abhishek.gonda...@gmail.com Hi Why don't we have any view that supports both horizontal

[android-developers] Re: left scrollbar

2010-03-29 Thread emna zeddini
Hello, Just I have a l suggestion, why don't you in the futur add a field in which android users can choose between left side or right side scrollbars so that you satisfy the needs of both RTL and LTR languages. Best regards. 2010/3/27 emna zeddini zeddini.e...@gmail.com Hello,. Is there a way

[android-developers] Re: left scrollbar

2010-03-29 Thread Bob Kerns
It's really a bit more complicated than that, to do it right. People don't just use LTR or RTL. There's a lot of mixed text, and people use a mix of applications which are and aren't localized to RTL languages. When the languages are intermixed, there's two different ways for things to behave --

Re: [android-developers] Re: left scrollbar

2010-03-29 Thread emna zeddini
Thank you for the detailed explanation. 2010/3/29 Bob Kerns r...@acm.org It's really a bit more complicated than that, to do it right. People don't just use LTR or RTL. There's a lot of mixed text, and people use a mix of applications which are and aren't localized to RTL languages. When

[android-developers] Re: left scrollbar

2010-03-28 Thread skink
On Mar 28, 3:37 am, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: But why do you want to put a scroll bar on the left?  Scroll bars on Android are on the right.  Making that different just makes things gratuitously different for the user, for no reason I can see. Dianne , i don't, OP wants

Re: [android-developers] Re: left scrollbar

2010-03-28 Thread Romain Guy
You can override these methods to draw the scrollbar on the left if you want. On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 12:12 AM, skink psk...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 28, 3:37 am, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: But why do you want to put a scroll bar on the left?  Scroll bars on Android are on the

[android-developers] Re: left scrollbar

2010-03-28 Thread skink
On Mar 28, 6:14 am, Romain Guy romain...@android.com wrote: You can override these methods to draw the scrollbar on the left if you want. thanks Romain a lot! speaking of scrollbars, i cannot make android:scrollbarSize to work. whatever i set it seems that size is always 6. also if i'm

[android-developers] Re: left scrollbar

2010-03-28 Thread Bob Kerns
Dianne, the OP wants scrollbars on the left because Arabic is written right-to-left. So the reasons for having scrollbars on the right are reversed. I'm not sure that's a good idea, however. I think Arabic users will be encountering scrollbars on the right very often, either because they're

Re: [android-developers] Re: left scrollbar

2010-03-28 Thread Dianne Hackborn
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Bob Kerns r...@acm.org wrote: Dianne, the OP wants scrollbars on the left because Arabic is written right-to-left. So the reasons for having scrollbars on the right are reversed. Ah... well, right to left text is not supported by Android, at all, so I think

[android-developers] Re: left scrollbar

2010-03-28 Thread Streets Of Boston
Dianne, In the future, is there support planned for right-to-left locales on Android? On Mar 28, 12:37 am, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: But why do you want to put a scroll bar on the left?  Scroll bars on Android are on the right.  Making that different just makes things

Re: [android-developers] Re: left scrollbar

2010-03-28 Thread Romain Guy
Yes. On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Streets Of Boston flyingdutc...@gmail.com wrote: Dianne, In the future, is there support planned for right-to-left locales on Android? On Mar 28, 12:37 am, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: But why do you want to put a scroll bar on the left?  

[android-developers] Re: left scrollbar

2010-03-28 Thread Streets Of Boston
Good answer! :-) On Mar 28, 7:36 pm, Romain Guy romain...@android.com wrote: Yes. On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Streets Of Boston flyingdutc...@gmail.com wrote: Dianne, In the future, is there support planned for right-to-left locales on Android? On Mar 28, 12:37 am, Dianne

[android-developers] Re: left scrollbar

2010-03-27 Thread skink
On Mar 27, 3:03 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: emna zeddini wrote: hello, I didn't understand what you meant.Is it impossible? I mean that none of the built-in classes (e.g., ScrollView) offer scrollbars on the left side. You are welcome to examine the 2,400 lines of code

Re: [android-developers] Re: left scrollbar

2010-03-27 Thread Dianne Hackborn
But why do you want to put a scroll bar on the left? Scroll bars on Android are on the right. Making that different just makes things gratuitously different for the user, for no reason I can see. On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 9:09 AM, skink psk...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 27, 3:03 pm, Mark Murphy