How do we create a drop down menu in android which is not focusable when we select an item from drop down list?
Previously I created a drop-down menu which is combo box. Everytime I selected an item from drop down list, the drop down menu is focusable. It shouldn't. Which is fixed by changing it to Option menu. I got an advice from this thread Combo box not focusable
Now, the problem is, Option menu doesn't work in android. It works perfectly on IOS only.
Note: I am developing using Livecode.
You're not supposed to use menu buttons on mobile devices. It is bad GUI design.
This is an example for Android:
global gCurrentSelectedValue
on mouseUp
put "One,Two,Three,Four,Five,Size,Seve,Eight,Nine,Then" into myOptionList
put 4 into gCurrentSelectedValue // sometimes you need more lines for this
mobilePick myOptionList,gCurrentSelectedValue,"checkmark","cancelDone"
put the result into rslt
if rslt > 0 then
put rslt into gCurrentSelectedValue
// do something with gCurrentSelectedValue
end if
end mouseUp
Spinners are available in LC:
http://forums.runrev.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=14543
But they may be overkill for your needs. Have you thought about using a set of grouped buttons? Combined with a "move" command you can add the animation.
Simon
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usually when we highliting a word on phone, it will have a pop up list that contain function like copy, paste, search such functions. Is it able to change the pop up list so that i can modify it to other function？
Check about ActionMode APIs. You can remove all functions and add custom function.
I'm playing around with Android spinners. I'm not 100% sure if I can get the behavior I want using a spinner, but it's the most obvious choice that comes to mind.
I need something of a dropdown view, the title of which says "x of y selected".
The options in the dropdown would look like:
-All
-None
-Special items only
On clicking one of the dropdown items, the title is reconfigured such that 'x' changes.
It would be ideal to use a spinner, but somehow, it seems that android puts in the first value of the spinner to always be the first values in the list of strings you pass it, and I clearly don't want the title item to be shown in the dropdown list for my case.
Another approach that I came across was to perhaps use a button with a popup with these items in the popup.
Would that be a better approach, or can I actually achieve the behavior using a spinner, or is there another view that would better serve my purpose?
I'm going to redirect to this post, after a lot of searching I found what I was looking for:
How to hide one item in an Android Spinner
The answer by Aebsubis, and make sure to set the text view height to 0. I'll update this answer with more code, once I'm done with tweaking it for my purposes.
I'm developing an application and I am facing a problem using ExpandableListView. What I'm trying to do is, in GroupHeader, not only show the group name, but also an spinner with options. That's because I want to show the football second division games in the list but, also, give the option to choose the round, in case the user wants to check older/future games. SO far I have that
As you can see both, title and spinner, shows. Also you can see the arrow on the right which is supposed to expand the list. Problem is that, if I click, only spinner opens, group expand button doesn't. So, here is my question, how can I make both of them work depending on where you click (one or another)??? Is that possible?
Also I must say that if I only place the TextView with the group name works perfect. If I only place the spinner, the problem persists. So I'm guessing that's a focus problem.
Btw: grey areas are the layout backgrounds, so no, they are not hiding behind the button.
I found the solution, I just neede to add this line android:descendantFocusability="blocksDescendants" to the Main Layout of the xml where I define the GroupHeader elements.
i am using default android spinner for drop down selection from multiple items array ,but i see the ui in Iphone it looks cool then android then is it possible to make like iphone ui picker view in android means a dropdown would be open with bottom to top animation with a "done" button on upper side of picker view and when i choose one and press "done" then that item should be selected as in iphone...
i think android must have this feature bcoz android is more better then Iphone as in cost and newer version of android capture the whole market ,
so pls any one help me..
thanks in advance
Check the following: http://android-devblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/wheel-ui-contol-backgrounds.html
Introduction to the Wheel control
The Wheel control layouts
Scrolling the wheel control
Ideas for the future
Do not forget to check "See Also"
Usually they use Spinner in Android
If you want a wheel thingy like in iPhone use this
Goal: have a LIstView show a list of text strings. The user can select an item by touching it. The selected item is visibly different to those not selected.
In short I want to have a simple scrolling list box that works using trackballs AND touch mode.
There are many posts asking for this, but none seem to get an adequate answer. This is such a simple requirement, why is there no article on this?
I looked at http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/views/hello-listview.html but that won't work in touch mode: the orange background is displayed, something unachievable in touch mode without extreme geek wizadry, for something that is quite frankly what all newbies expect out of the box.
I suspect that the only way to achive a touch mode selectable listbox (ListView in google speak), is to stick radio buttons in there. All of a sudden my little text list view is beccoming a monster.
Can anyone explain the simplest way to do a single choice ListView that displays the item selected so the user can figure out that it is selected, in touch mode? After fumbling for days, I really am not fussed if it has radio buttons, singing cockatoos, or whatever, so long as it's simple to code.
Here's the example that Google provides:
http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/ApiDemos/src/com/example/android/apis/view/List10.html
It uses radio buttons
Wat do u want to do? Just highlighting the row in the ListView which is selected.rt? for this u can use this.
android:listSelector="#drawable/highlighter"
android:drawSelectorOnTop="true"
Write this code in your XML file