Trying to use AndroidStudio (3.4.2) for the first time and it appers to be substantially different to the tutorial at
https://developer.android.com/training/basics/firstapp/building-ui
For example:
There is no layout editor toolbar let alone a show button.
There is no autoconnect button
It doesn't show any wiggly lines from the middle of the blue square to its edges.
When adding a text box it goes to the top left and can't be moved.
WTF is going on? This is awful!
So I know this may sound like the hard answer, but in the long run it will make life 1000x easier.
You need to learn XML to design the activities. It's fairly simple and really easy to research. The reason the textbox can't be moved is because the default layout is ConstraintLayout. In order to fix this, go to the xml file and change the Constraint layout to either Relative layout or Linear Layout. In the end, its more simple to learn straight xml.
I suggest you learn Android programming from here or somewhere else because the Android documentation can be confusing especially for a beginner like yourself and trust me, I've been there.
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I am new to Android Studio. I am trying to make a basic application that adds two numbers, but each time I move something around, The entire layout gets messed up.
I added a separate View in the center to act as a reference point to counter this, but it is still getting very annoying.
Any idea on how to fix this? I am using Studio version 2.1
If not, is any other way to design the user interface without having to deal with relative layouts?
I have tried linear layouts but those only allow me to place my elements in fixed places which I cannot use in my app.
Please guide me.
Note: I apologize if this question is too simple. I am a newbie after all, do forgive me.
Thanks in advance!
This is indeed the function of RelativeLayout in Android Studio. If you are getting problems with dragging and dropping with RelativeLayout then you should try any other layout. eg. ConstraintLayout
2nd Solution:
Try adding new buttons instead of copying and pasting old ones.
Have you tried using margin: http://android4beginners.com/2013/07/lesson-2-2-how-to-use-margins-and-paddings-in-android-layout/
also look you can align certain object in the xml code relative to eachother, have no link for that atm
Since the release of javafx 8 is coming up right around the corner, I figured now would be a good time to get better acquainted with a few of the new features. First on my list: enhanced (true) 3D shapes and rendering! Working for an engineering company, being able to integrate a rich 3d environment into some of our visualizations will be great!
In any case, I was working through the 'getting started' here and all was well. Able to compile everything, getting familiar with how they structure all of their layouts in 3d, etc. etc. It was great! After familiarizing myself with some of the more advanced translations, I decided to take a look at their final 'sample 3d application' that had things like mouse and keyboard listeners to set the angle and orientation of the camera, which was the only thing I hadn't done yet. (you can find a link to the source code I downloaded for it, complete with a nbproject here It's called MoleculeSampleApp.zip and it's in the top right corner of the page).
So I go to compile it, everything shows up just fine, the molecule, the axis, and then I try to initiate any action at all, a mouse click, drag, a recognized keyboard input, etc. Everything on the scene simply vanishes.
Well that's strange, I think to myself, so I take a look at the code. Everything looks to be in order, and a few print lines later, I find out that the contents of the graph aren't disappearing until the very END of the listener, whenever that happens to be. Nothing inside of the listener is actually causing the disappearing (unless of course it's the hide/show keyboard shortcuts).
To be honest, I'm a bit baffled by this. There are no exceptions being thrown, no errors printing out. It just disappears, and that's the end of it.
If anyone has any idea why this is happening I would be immensely grateful. It's worth noting, I'm using the javafx 8 developer preview b132.
(if you would like me to post the entire source here, let me know, it's only about 600 lines altogether, but that's pretty heavy for a SO question so I'm just going to leave the links for now).
tl;dr
The moleculesimpleapp.zip located here makes everything disappear on any action it knows to listen for, with no clear reason, why?
-Will
So this is going to be kinda silly, but I don't like the arrows for Magnific Popup, and I want to use some png arrows that I created, even moreso I don't want them the default way where they are miles apart, and I don't want them to obstruct content (cause I am using Magnific Popup to gallery some ajax). I really want them bound in div/big square buttons on the side of the image (the height of the image as well) like the first example here:
and those big black bars on a tv
I have no idea where the code is to change this, or how to edit the basic construction of the lightbox but I really want to change the arrows (and the x) if someone could direct me to the code where I can do this I will be glad to do it but I feel like I am working blind.
Alternatively, if anyone knows any other lightboxes that allow you to position and design your own arrows and close button, and have a gallery of ajax based items (that is responsive and scrolls) I will gladly switch (I basically want to be behance ha ha)
(also is there anyway we can generate a swipe effect to go through a gallery?)
Feel free to tell me to go to hell if it is impossible :D
Thanks.
Is it possible to reproduce what is on the picture below in ListView, padding/margin icon to the right.
http://img801.imageshack.us/img801/4043/listview.png
My first question here, so I couldnt post the picture here.
Basically I need to move the ListView icon more right, I am reproducing file/directory browser, so the fails that are in a directory need to be below them and slighty right like in the picture, I have everything else figured out.
You should be using a TreeView control:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/1dtsdfkx.aspx
But if you insist on hacking a ListView to render this way, you'll simply have to take over drawing each row yourself. You can do so using the OwnerDraw property, though be warned that there's a lot of corner cases here so you should do a lot of reading to see what people have had to deal with when implementing this:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.listview.ownerdraw.aspx
I'd like to write a Linux screen magnifier that's customized to my liking. Ideally, the magnified window would be a square about 150 pixels wide that follows the mouse cursor wherever it goes.
Is it possible to do this in X11? Would it be easier to have an application window that follows the mouse around, or would it be better (or possible) to forget about the window altogether and just make the mouse pointer a 150x150 square that magnifies whatever's underneath?
Look at the source to xeyes?
This actually already exists, it's called Xmag (do a Google search for additional info). You might want to check out the source code for it if you want to know how it works.
EDIT: looks like I misread your question a little bit... if you want a magnified square to follow the mouse pointer around, I suppose it should be possible, but I don't know the technical details of how you'd do it. Regardless, the place to start is probably by looking at Xmag as a starting point.
I am unsure if this can run as its own app or would have to be integrated into your window manager. Either way, you would need libx11 (might have a different name from distro to distro). Also, I would suggest taking a look at swarp. I know this is not even close to what you are talking about, but the source code is only 35 lines and it shows what can be done with libx11.
I would personally make that a frameless window that always stays atop with a 1px hole in the middle. The events that the user makes (Mouse clicks, keypresses, whatever) is passed to the window below.
And when the user moves it's cursor it is ought to be visible to your window and you just move it over a bit. For the magnifying part, well - that is left as an exercise to the reader (Because I do not know how to do that as of yet ;-).
Texworks comes with such a feature to inspect the pdf resulting from typesetting a latex source. You can also choose between a square or a circular magnifier. See https://www.tug.org/texworks/ for access to the code which can serve a launchpad.