[android-developers] Re: Cannot get textAppearance to inherit/cascade from theme

2013-03-08 Thread Walt Armour
I was a hair too hasty in the previous reply. Hours later and I found the real answer: Using textViewStyle will set the properties but will also prevent local override of those values (by setting textAppearance directly on a TextView). The real solution: do not set android:textAppearance on y

[android-developers] Re: Cannot get textAppearance to inherit/cascade from theme

2013-03-08 Thread Walt Armour
Not quite the same but good enough for my stuff: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8380020/android-how-do-i-set-the-textsize-for-a-layout/8380153 On Thursday, February 18, 2010 10:24:49 PM UTC-8, Walt Armour wrote: > > I have a simple style like this: > > >

[android-developers] Re: Eclipse, ADT and opening XML files

2011-10-23 Thread Walt Armour
ostly just paranoia here I'm thinking). I then went back in to add software and added all the available ADT components at once. After a restart and reopening the project, the XML now opens in the appropriate ADT editor. On Oct 22, 10:58 pm, Walt Armour wrote: > I'm seeing this beha

[android-developers] Re: Eclipse, ADT and opening XML files

2011-10-22 Thread Walt Armour
I'm seeing this behaviour as well. I just had a disk crash and had to reinstall all of Eclipse and the Android SDK. Previously I was running Eclipse Helios with the latest Android SDK and latest ADT (r14). All XML files opened automatically with the appropriate Android XML helper/editor. This

[android-developers] Re: Compatibility Library, revision 3 has a 0 size

2011-07-27 Thread Walt Armour
> > > > > > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Walt Armour wrote: > > Trying to update to revision 3.  No errors, it just never updates. > > > Here's the package description from the SDK manager dialog.  Any > > suggestions?  Alternative download locations?

[android-developers] Compatibility Library, revision 3 has a 0 size

2011-07-26 Thread Walt Armour
Trying to update to revision 3. No errors, it just never updates. Here's the package description from the SDK manager dialog. Any suggestions? Alternative download locations? -- Package Description Compatibility libraries, revision 3 This update will replace revisi

[android-developers] Probable bug with managed dialogs

2010-04-14 Thread Walt Armour
There have been numerous threads (here and elsewhere) and bugs about issues with managed dialogs and configuration changes (orientation or keyboard slides). However, I haven't found exact mention of this specific issue and I wonder if it could by the cause of some of the other problems that folks

[android-developers] Re: Customizing ExpandableListView

2010-04-05 Thread Walt Armour
overriding getIndicator(). Unfortunately that method is marked private so I'll have to replace all the code. Lots of private methods in Android that may be better suited as protected. C'est la vie. I may give it a try. On Apr 5, 12:32 pm, Walt Armour wrote: > I've been fighti

[android-developers] Re: Customizing ExpandableListView

2010-04-05 Thread Walt Armour
I've been fighting with styling on ExpandableListView as well (an area that could use some improvement in a future release). The problem with the current implementation is in the selector element for the group expander. It can be found in expander_group.xml and looks like this: http://schemas.an

[android-developers] Cannot get textAppearance to inherit/cascade from theme

2010-02-18 Thread Walt Armour
I have a simple style like this: #FF @style/PrimaryText And a simple style like this: #FF

[android-developers] Re: How to show floating menu similar to sub-menus on screen tap

2010-02-09 Thread Walt Armour
Here is an article on an unrelated subject. However, in the end he has created a custom view that displays buttons along the button. I imagine you could use whatever approach the author used and then toggle the visibility based on a screen touch. The look of the view could be made to be whatever

[android-developers] Re: Fiddler2 not capturing HTTP traffic

2010-02-08 Thread Walt Armour
Just adding in my pain here as well. I have the same problem. I've tried every permutation of addresses I can. I've tried multiple methods of configuring the proxy (including the direct-to-the- preferences-DB approach found in very old mailing list posts). Nothing seems to set the proxy on the e

[android-developers] Re: What is the proper result for Handler.Callback.handleMessage() ?

2010-02-04 Thread Walt Armour
of the message. On Jan 21, 10:55 am, Walt Armour wrote: > Handler.Callback.handleMessage() returns a boolean (as opposed to > Handler.handleMessage() which is a void method). > > I cannot find any documentation of what the correct return value > should be.  Should the method retur

[android-developers] Re: aapt and using shared images

2010-01-01 Thread Walt Armour
resources in other directories elsewhere in the developer's file system. On Dec 31 2009, 10:52 pm, joebowbeer wrote: > Have you considered packaging the images as assets using aapt's -A > modifier? > > -A  additional directory in which to find raw asset files > > On Dec 3

[android-developers] aapt and using shared images

2009-12-31 Thread Walt Armour
We will potentially be sharing images between an android app and other apps (gotta keep those costs down). I am attempting to find a way to have the android app use image files that are outside of its project directory tree (i.e. not in res/drawable). At the moment I'm thinking some custom work w