Smills wrote:The ball will only move when i am touching the screen for some reason (doesn't matter where I am touching). It seems the draw method is only called when there is interaction. Any idea what method i can put code in to have it called every cycle?

Hey Smills,
In order for you to have to ball continusly moving all you should have to do is take it out of your onTouch method and put it else where like in a timer

Hi,

Thanks for a nice tutorial. Can you help me in dragging and dropping the balls from one view to another. I have a linearlyaout that has 2 views. I want to drag and drop the balls from one view to another. Balls should only fall into place if user drags them to another view otherwise the ball should come back to its original view.

Thanks in advance.

HI all this tuts is very simple and does the drag and drop just fine ..very light weight ..

I have a diff question "HOW CAN I DISABLE /RESTRICT DRAG FEATURE TO CERTAIN PART OF THE SCREEN " ??

ANY IDEAS??

It seems that i only manage to register ACTION_DOWN events. Any idea how it comes that no other event is being passed? Could it be because of the AVD?

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public boolean onTouch(View arg0, MotionEvent arg1) {
   int action = arg1.getAction();
   if (action == MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN) {
      ...
   } else {
      ...
      //never reached
   }
   return false;
}

You have to return true after getting the ACTION_DOWN. You won't be notified of others actions otherwise.

lol that was pretty trivial I didn't have a clue what the return value was for so i just ignored it...
Thanks a lot

amIT29 wrote:HI all this tuts is very simple and does the drag and drop just fine ..very light weight ..

I have a diff question "HOW CAN I DISABLE /RESTRICT DRAG FEATURE TO CERTAIN PART OF THE SCREEN " ??

ANY IDEAS??

You can put an extra test on the X and Y coordinates you get from the event: for example, if you can only handle the event if the given X-coordinate is larger than say, 40:

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public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
   int X = (int)event.getX();
   int Y = (int)event.getY();
   if (X > 40) {
       switch (eventaction ) {
          ...
       }
   }
}


Thanks for this tutorial mate, very useful.

I too am interested in the question asked above by Soch12...how is it possible to detect if you have dragged an object into a particular view?

Very nice and helpful sample,thanks!

I have a very strange problem with a simple modification on the code!I wanted to have the overall control of the let's say app in the activity so first i take all the code from the DrawView.class and paste it into the activity class and delete the DrawView.class file since it didn't need!everything works fine!!!
Then to seperate a little bit more the code i took all the onTouchevent code and paste it in the activity class(see the code below)!

And the strange to all this is that the onTouchevent is working(all actions up move down is being captured) but the if() statement which is checking if we are in the ball bounds doesn't!!!To be more specific it's like it can't read the X,Y vars!

When i use this(in onTouchEvent in ACTION_DOWN, the values i use here isn't the values that i was using when i was testing it i had calculate what values should i use)



it worked!(i mean i was getting the log msg)

but when i used the original if() it didn't!!(no log msg)

code:


So i came up that although they are two simple vars(X,Y) which i can take their values and print them i can't use them inside the if statement because the ontouchevent should always be inside a view.(i know it doesn't sound right,can't we have touch events which will be handled from the activity?)

Any suggestions why this is happening?
thanks!

Good night guys, I'm from Brazil and I'm trying to develop a software that has the function of dragging an image coming from a file. Xml (R.layout.main), but am not able to accomplish this task. Anyone have any examples of how to do this?
Thank you very much for your help if they can collaborate.

Yes, here you explain consistently a rather direct approach. I'd call canvas oriented.
The container implements onDraw() and will draw from scratch all your items into the canvas. The item being dragged obliously get drawn att it's new position.

Another approach might be interesting too. I'd call layout-oriented. Without any onDraw() implementation. It make sense when you can consider a container with a FrameLayout. Dragging a child can be carried out by just actualizing it's LayoutParams.



We call getLayoutParams() onto the View provided by the onTouch() method.

The point is to cast it to a FrameLayout.LayoutParam.

Now you have access to the properties : leftMargin and leftMargin.
Just need to actualize them to reflect the new position, and you are done!

It's what I explain more in details in my post http://blog.scoutant.org/index.php?post/2011/02/Approche-naturelle-de-Drag-and-Drop-en-Android. In French, but you can download the code directly...

thanks Marchu for the tree ball code.
How would you go about to modify the code to have a TextEdit moved instead of graphic (ball).
Wanted to put text on a picture and then save it merged together as a new picture.
Moving the text around to make a "funny card" type of layout .

Thanx for sharing.
But when i openned the dragdrop application, i have to wait 2-3 seconds for dragging . If i dont wait, it gives error and the program is closed. How can i fit this problem?

Thank you very much for your help.

Hi! I'm new in android and tried this sample. It works great. My problem is, how do can I add background color/image and other widgets to the app.

Thank you in advance

Great tutorial. I pushed the click evaluation code back into the object itself, so it is self-aware if a point is inside the image. I needed to do this because I loaded images that had alpha transparency.

This simplifies the code inside MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN.

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/*
     * True only if the image has a non-transparent pixel at the point that was
     *  clicked.  Does NOT account for overlapping images
     */
    public boolean isIntersecting(int x, int y) {
        boolean retVal = false;
       
        int relativeX = x - mCoordX;
        int relativeY = y - mCoordY;
       
        // Only do check if the box is in the right range
        if (   (0 <= relativeX && relativeX < mImage.getWidth())
            && (0 <= relativeY && relativeY < mImage.getHeight()) ) {
            // Now, verify if the point is transparent or not
            int pixel = mImage.getPixel(relativeX, relativeY);
            int alpha = Color.alpha(pixel);

            if(0 != alpha) {
                retVal = true;
            }
        }
       
        return retVal;
    }

Thanks for the tutorial.
Very usefull