Skip to main content

Android button with image background and text and stateful functionality



I want to create "button" in XML layout (if possible) which has background image based on state (this image is NOT 9-patched) and with text. Which component to use?





My button_states.xml looks like:







<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

<item android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="@drawable/my_pressed" />

<item android:drawable="@drawable/my_normal" />

</selector>







my_pressed and my_normal are NON 9-patched images.





Now if I use regular button







<Button

android:id="@+id/my_button"

android:layout_width="wrap_content"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

android:background="@drawable/button_states"

android:text="@string/my_text" />







button it is rendered without background image.





How to do "button" with text and stateful "static" backgrounds?





Thx





Regards


Comments

  1. The easiest way to accomplish this is doing it in code. Use setBackgroundDrawable() on the (regular) Button to set the desired background. If you use your selector as the provided drawable you should be fine.

    [Edit] To do this using resources, place your button_state.xml in the res\drawable folder in use the following code:

    Button button = (Button) findViewById(R.id.my_button);
    button.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.button_state);

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Why is this Javascript much *slower* than its jQuery equivalent?

I have a HTML list of about 500 items and a "filter" box above it. I started by using jQuery to filter the list when I typed a letter (timing code added later): $('#filter').keyup( function() { var jqStart = (new Date).getTime(); var search = $(this).val().toLowerCase(); var $list = $('ul.ablist > li'); $list.each( function() { if ( $(this).text().toLowerCase().indexOf(search) === -1 ) $(this).hide(); else $(this).show(); } ); console.log('Time: ' + ((new Date).getTime() - jqStart)); } ); However, there was a couple of seconds delay after typing each letter (particularly the first letter). So I thought it may be slightly quicker if I used plain Javascript (I read recently that jQuery's each function is particularly slow). Here's my JS equivalent: document.getElementById('filter').addEventListener( 'keyup', function () { var jsStart = (new Date).getTime()...

Is it possible to have IF statement in an Echo statement in PHP

Thanks in advance. I did look at the other questions/answers that were similar and didn't find exactly what I was looking for. I'm trying to do this, am I on the right path? echo " <div id='tabs-".$match."'> <textarea id='".$match."' name='".$match."'>". if ($COLUMN_NAME === $match) { echo $FIELD_WITH_COLUMN_NAME; } else { } ."</textarea> <script type='text/javascript'> CKEDITOR.replace( '".$match."' ); </script> </div>"; I am getting the following error message in the browser: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_IF Please let me know if this is the right way to go about nesting an IF statement inside an echo. Thank you.