Thanks. Al.
--- * Written an Android App? - List it at http://andappstore.com/ * ====== Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Romain Guy Sent: 03 April 2009 16:58 To: [email protected] Subject: [android-developers] Re: Which one scales with the screen... Dip, sp, px.....? Simply use the layout_weight on the children of a TableRow or LinearLayout. Give them all a width of 0dip and the same layout_weight (1 for instance.) That's all. On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 2:43 AM, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > > Given the recent discovery with the cupcake emulator I'm trying to > re-work the layout file so it's cupcake friendly and future proofed, > but have hit a problem. > > What I want is for 6 buttons to take up a total of three quarters of > the screen width, but I can't seem to find the measurement unit which > correlates to this. All I've found is; > > px : Not screen resolution independent, so something that works on a > 320x480 screen won't take 3/4s of the screen on different resolution > display. > > dip : Scales with pixel density and not screen resolution, so the > object won't scale up as the physical screen size gets bigger. > Pt, in & mm : Don't scale with screen size so a 1 unit button is the > same size on a 3 or 30 inch screen. > > sp : Based on font size and there's no guaranteed correlation between > font width and screen width. > > > The closest I've got is the following; > > <TableLayout android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal" > android:layout_height="wrap_content" > android:layout_width="fill_parent"> > <TableRow> > <Button android:id="@+id/button1" > android:layout_width="fill_parent" > android:layout_height="wrap_content"/> > <Button android:id="@+id/button2" > android:layout_width="fill_parent" > android:layout_height="wrap_content"/> > <Button android:id="@+id/button3" > android:layout_width="fill_parent" > android:layout_height="wrap_content"/> > <Button android:id="@+id/button4" > android:layout_width="fill_parent" > android:layout_height="wrap_content"/> > <Button android:id="@+id/button5" > android:layout_width="fill_parent" > android:layout_height="wrap_content"/> > <Button android:id="@+id/button6" > android:layout_width="fill_parent" > android:layout_height="wrap_content"/> > </TableRow> > </TableLayout> > > But this results in buttons with uneven widths which is not what I'm after. > > > Does anyone have a solution? > > Al. > > > --- > > * Written an Android App? - List it at http://andappstore.com/ * > > ====== > Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the > company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, > 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. > > The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not > necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's > subsidiaries. > > > > > > -- Romain Guy Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
