No, that won't work because the 4 views will expand to take up the extra room, leaving the ImageButtons only as wide as their layout width of 50px. I don't want that. I want the buttons to expand to take up that room.
On Nov 6, 8:13 am, Kostya Vasilyev <[email protected]> wrote: > Don't set layout_weight=1 on the buttons. > > Insert four Views between the buttons to act as spacers, and give those > layout_weight: > > <ImageButton..../> > > <View > android:layout_width="0px" > android:layout_height="1px" > android:layout_weight="1"/> > > <ImageButton.../> > > <View > android:layout_width="0px" > android:layout_height="1px" > android:layout_weight="1"/> > > etc. > > -- Kostya > > 06.11.2011 17:09, RLScott пишет: > > > > > > > This should be easy, but everything I try is not quite right. I want > > to use an XML RelativeLayout to position 5 square ImageButtons along > > the bottom of the screen. The images are defined by a 120 x 120 pixel > > PNG, so it needs to be scaled down to fit in a Droid in portrait mode, > > for instance. I have tried specify for each button: > > > android:layout_weight="1" > > android:layout_width="50px" > > android:layout_height="50px" > > android:scaleType="fitXY" > > > The layout_weight="1" is necessary to make the buttons spread out > > horizontally and share the space. Otherwise they bunch up at the > > beginning. > > > The layout_width and layout_height are arbitrary, but they are > > necessary to keep the program from crashing. > > > the scaleType of "fitXY" is necessary to make the image scale down to > > the laid out size of the button. But it only scales in X. It leaves > > Y at 50px because that was my arbitrary setting. I want the > > ImageButton to remain square, so I need the X and Y sizes to be the > > same. I don't know how to do that in XML without specifying them > > explicitly, and I don't want to do that because I want the X sizes to > > be set by dividing up the available width evenly in the layout > > process. I am willing to do some adjustments in onCreate, but what > > can I do to force the 1:1 aspect ratio of the buttons and still > > benefit from convenience of XML layout? > > -- > Kostya Vasilyev -- 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
