mostly it works on same places it doesn't. always this problem with width. so far i gave up and i use nesting where it works and copypaste content everywhere else

it seems that what causes problems is situation where ViewWarpper is part of horizontal vertical layout and this is part of vertical linear layout. then if any of these layouts is taken away it will start to work, but of course screen layout is not as it should be so itsnot solution. i will play with it when i will not have to hurry with other things

in my case, the contents are within a linearlayout which is in a tablelayout

but i tried to simple have blank xml files and each containing a textviwe, while the other xml file imports the other (containing only the textview) and i also get the same error (layout_width)

google should have included nested xml capabilities before android was released, tsk. we cant have all components in 1 xml file.

hi selmi
i actually got it to work now

what i did was that in my main xml file, i placed a layout, e.g. linearlayout

then in my code

http://tech.chitgoks.com/2008/03/19/and ... g-runtime/


of course you can delete the existing view if you want before calling addView()

ll.removeAllViewsInLayout();

i removed mine because if i kept on adding Views my app will become heavy sooner or later. so we just create new views and leave it to the garbage collector to clean up the removed views

fyi

I too am getting the "java.lang.RuntimeException: Binary XML file line #32: You must supply a layout_width attribute." exception. Unfortunately, I'm not just looking to simply nest XML, but to make a custom widget extending LinearLayout with its own behavior that I can use in various places in my app. For that situation, chitgoks' solution doesn't really help.

When I load my custom class from a test Dialog that loads an XML layout which contains the custom class, it loads just fine. But when I load it from a rather complex activity with lots and lots of layout levels, it pops the exception.

I just can't figure it out.

hi chitgoks
sorry for so late answer, your advise works great, thanks a lot!

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