I have an icon in my application and I made it clickable (When I click the icon, some action is called), but the problem is, you have to be really accurate. On the other hand the menu icon (the 3 dots) has a bigger "range" and when you click little bit outside, it is still working. Is there any way to achieve the same thing at the app icon? Or is there any better way to make a clickable icon in the upper left corner than using app icon?
Add padding to the icon, the more padding you add to it, the more clickable area you ll get!
Try to put a transparent button over your icon. Don't forget to make it unclickable and put enabled to false, so it doesn't intercepts the click intended for the icon.
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I have created an overlay menu that is a rectangle.
It displays on top of everything else while active. All other apps, the home screen, etc.
If you click anywhere outside of this rectangle your click hits
whatever is visible.
If you click the red part it allows you to drag the menu around the
screen. Clicking the green part performs some function.
I have created this rectangle from inflating layout xml. The rectangle itself is a relativeLayout and the green and red parts are both imageView children.
Since I'm unable to move the relativeView off screen and since the background needs to be clickable my only solution was to calculate margins and apply them to the relative view to imitate the desired effect.
However, the code to calculate these margins is almost 50 lines and fairly complex and hard to understand at a glance if someone else needs to refactor. I can post the code but I don't believe it's relevant to the actual problem's context.
Is there a much simpler way to do this that I'm missing? Is my approach wrong?
I hope this simple project may help you Android Floating Widget
Hello I have some questions for adding images for a ImageButton.
I have an icon for example a play button now if I hover over the button it just should get a blue surounding box the inside Image should not change.
Should I draw for every icon the two states or are there other options.
If an button is not clickable it should get Grey. Same how to do this? Add an additional Image to every Icon?
For what is the Checked drawable in the ImageButton?
ImageButtons have a drawable for their background (up, down, over, etc.) and a drawable for the image on top of the button (imageUp, imageDown, imageOver, etc.). The only ones you must provide are up for the background and imageUp for the icon. These are the defaults used when you leave the other states null. But for visual reasons, you need down for the background or it will be hard to tell if the button is being pressed. It's up to you whether you think you need to also change the icon appearance with an imageDown.
All you need is to add the background drawable for disabled. If you want the icon to also turn gray, you need to create a gray version of the icon and assign it to imageDisabled.
The Buttons in Scene2d all support toggle functionality. When you press it, it will toggle to the checked state, so you can use the checked drawable to change its appearance while it is stuck down. If you don't want that to happen, leave the checked drawable null.
I created a JFrame and in the top right corner I have 3 buttons (minimize, maximize, close). How do I get the size of these buttons? I want to place a new button just to the left of the minimize button in the title bar but I need to know how much space these existing buttons take up so that I don't place my button on top of them. ie If you open a recent version of the Chrome browser you'll see a button beside the minimize button in the browser window. I want to do the same sort of thing in my Java application.
What your describing is very advanced.
An alternative route would be to use:
setUndecorated(true);
Then create your own window decorations. This way everything matches and you can add all of the button that you want.
I am designing my activity screen using eclipse but whenever I move an object e.g. a button it snaps around and I find it hard to position things where i want them.
Is there some setting I can change as as soon as I add a second button it snaps the other button to another position it is so annoying!
Also if I have an image button why can't i resize this, even with a normal button if i try to make it larger it just fits to the text and wont make the button bigger or it just flicks to a random place on the activity?
thanks
Probably you're trying to place components freely in the View but you're not considering the LayoutManager behavior. If you try to position your component in a LinearLayout, for example, the components will be placed following its rules, and these components will not stay where you drop them.
Try to understand better how the layouts works on Android. But for now, the AbsoluteLayout or RelativeLayout may be what you're looking for.
About the components size, you'll need to understand better how to use layout properties for these components. See the question How to size buttons for more information.
I am creating a desktop application in Java with lots of customized UI.
It also has a breadcrumb.
I've extended JButton class to customize it for my Breadcrumb buttons.
This is the screenshot of expected breadcrumb.
http://puu.sh/4MtvZ.jpg
The background of this breadcrumb is an ImageIcon.
But now, I am not able to perfectly align the JButton text over this background icon.
This is the screenshot of actual breadcrumb.
http://puu.sh/4MtDc.png
I've used following code to align the text.
setHorizontalTextPosition(CENTER);
setVerticalTextPosition(CENTER);
So, is their a way that I can move this text in pixels to its right position?
And also, I want root breadcrumb button "Schemes" to overlap some part of its preceding breadcrumb button "2000 Avenues" as shown in expected breadcrumb screenshot!
How can I achieve that?
Check out the Overlap Layout for one solution.
So, is their a way that I can move this text in pixels to its right position?
I don't understand this question. Why are you setting the alignment to center if you want it aligned to the left.
Edit:
I see. You are just using an Icon for the button outline and are then painting the text on top of the Icon. I thought your were using a custom shaped button with text). You can just use the default vertical/horizontal text position settings.
To shift the text to the left you can use:
button.setIconTextGap(10 - button.getIcon().getIconWidth());