Have you considered using TableLayout? I've never used it but it
sounds promising for what you want to do.

Chrigi

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Neilz <neilhorn...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I see. Thanks Mark.
>
> That's frustrating, as View does some really useful things that I
> can't get other view types to do.
>
> Basically I'm trying to set up a grid of buttons (say 4 * 4 for
> example), where the buttons are exactly equal in size, regardless of
> the text within them, and together fill the parent view. View is
> really good at filling its parent view, when used with layout_weight,
> but if I change them to LinearLayout I lose that control - the buttons
> start wrapping on the text, etc.
>
> I don't want to use specific widths and heights, as this won't be
> helpful when testing on different devices, but I want the buttons to
> naturally fit the available space with equal sizes.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
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