Thanks for the response Mark. I hadn't made the map clickable so had no way to return the controls. Fixing that solved the problem.
It still seems a bit odd that the behaviour is neither configurable nor documented. Oh well - I suppose I could always design my own controls if needed. Thanks again! David On Oct 20, 5:48 pm, Mark Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David C wrote: > > I have added ZoomControls to a MapView using addView(). When my > > activity loads the controls appear briefly but then disappear, never > > to be seen again. There only seems to be one discussion on this group > > but it didn't explicitly address this issue. > > > Can anyone explain why this happens, and how it can be avoided so the > > controls persist? > > Since we can't see your code, it's a little tough to answer your > question. So let me tell you what works for me: > > 1. Put something in your layout for the zoom controls: > > <RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"; > android:layout_width="fill_parent" > android:layout_height="fill_parent"> > <com.google.android.maps.MapView android:id="@+id/map" > android:layout_width="fill_parent" > android:layout_height="fill_parent" > android:apiKey="NooYawk" > android:clickable="true" /> > <LinearLayout android:id="@+id/zoom" > android:layout_width="wrap_content" > android:layout_height="wrap_content" > android:layout_alignParentBottom="true" > android:layout_alignParentLeft="true" /> > </RelativeLayout> > > 2. Add the actual zoom controls to your container: > > ViewGroup zoom=(ViewGroup)findViewById(R.id.zoom); > > zoom.addView(map.getZoomControls()); > > When I click in the area for the zoom controls (lower left in the > example shown above), the controls appear for ~2 seconds, or ~2 seconds > after I last interact with them (if I'm actually working the controls). > And they reappear the same way. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com > > Android Training on the Ranch! -- Mar 16-20, > 2009http://www.bignerdranch.com/schedule.shtml --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
