A lot of people still use tables to layout controls, data etc. – one example of this is the popular jqGrid. However, there is some magic happening that I cant seem to fathom (its tables for crying out loud, how much magic could there possibly be?) How is it possible to set a table’s column … Read more
I’m trying to center a button in relative layout, is this possible? I’ve tried the Gravity and Orientation functions but they don’t do anything. 11 Answers 11
Is it possible to set the absolute position of a view in Android? (I know that there is an AbsoluteLayout, but it’s deprecated…) For example, if I have a 240x320px screen, how could I add an ImageView which is 20x20px such that its center is at the position (100,100)? 8 Answers 8
View’s have a minHeight but somehow are lacking a maxHeight: What I’m trying to achieve is having some items (views) filling up a ScrollView. When there are 1..3 items I want to display them directly. Meaning the ScrollView has the height of either 1, 2 or 3 items. When there are 4 or more items … Read more
Can this attribute be changed dynamically in Java code? android:layout_marginRight I have a TextView, that has to change its position some pixels to the left dynamically. How to do it programmatically? 4 Answers 4
Is such a thing possible using CSS and two inline-block (or whatever) DIV tags instead of using a table? The table version is this (borders added so you can see it): <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”> <html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”> <head></head> <body> <table style=”width:100%;”> <tr> <td style=”border:1px solid black;width:100px;height:10px;”></td> <td style=”border:1px solid black;height:10px;”></td> </tr> … Read more
I’m designing my application UI. I need a layout looks like this: (< and > are Buttons). The problem is, I don’t know how to make sure the TextView will fill the remaining space, with two buttons have fixed size. If I use fill_parent for Text View, the second button (>) can’t be shown. How … Read more
How can I prevent automatic line breaks in a column of table (not a single cell)? 9 Answers 9
I have a view made up of TableLayout, TableRow and TextView. I want it to look like a grid. I need to get the height and width of this grid. The methods getHeight() and getWidth() always return 0. This happens when I format the grid dynamically and also when I use an XML version. How … Read more
Is there any good way of truncating text with plain HTML and CSS, so that dynamic content can fit in a fixed-width-and-height layout? I’ve been truncating server-side by logical width (i.e. a blindly-guessed number of characters), but since a ‘w’ is wider than an ‘i’ this tends to be suboptimal, and also requires me to … Read more
