sorry ignore my posting. Found the solution. print out the location values in onMeasure where the x, y coordinate is undetermine.
On Oct 25, 6:18 pm, eli <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I think there may be a bug in getLocationInWindow API, should the > calculation below take the padding of view into consideration. > > //extract from View.java > while (viewParent instanceof View) { > final View view = (View)viewParent; > location[0] += view.mLeft - view.mScrollX; // missing > mPaddingLeft ?? > location[1] += view.mTop - view.mScrollY; // missing > mPaddingTop?? > viewParent = view.mParent; > } > > My application trying to get its top view x,y coordinate on the > screen, by calling getLocationOnScreen (which in turn call > getLocationInWindow), but it not returning the values I was > expecting. > > My application starts an activity with no title but has a status bar. > Calling getLocationOnScreen from my top view, (the one that gets > passed into setContentView), I will expect y set to 25. But instead it > return 0, digging into the frameworks code reveal the height of the > status bar (i.e. 25) is set to mPaddingTop. So if the calculation > above includes mPaddingTop, I will get the right value of 25. > > Or have I misunderstood the API usage? > > Thanks. -- 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
