updating own views on click

michael22 · by **michael22** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 5:38 am

hey,

i have an own ImageView, which is declared in via xml

<org.michael.MyView ... />

the class now overrides onDraw to draw some contents. it has also some extending methods to pass arguments from outside. i now want to update the drawing from time to time, but i dont know how. because i dont initialize the class like "MyView mv = new MyView()" i just have the Reference to the ImageView using getViewById. but i need to call mv.setParam(123) for e repaint. any ideas?

For example: when im using the progressbar i can define it in the xml file. when calling
ProgressBar pb = (ProgressBar) findViewById(R.id.progressbar);
the variable pb hast the method setProgress(int).
when using my own view, android does not offer the declared methods needed.

plusminus · by **plusminus** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 11:52 am

Hello michael22,

I did that in the :src: WeatherForecast-Tutorial. It works like this:

Somewhere in your xyzlayout.xml-file:

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<org.anddev.android.weatherforecast.views.SingleWeatherInfoView
        id="@+id/weather_1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content" 
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:gravity="center_horizontal"
        android:orientation="vertical"
        />
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Then in your Activity (setRemoteImage is a custom method on the custom view):

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// the Cast to SingleWeatherInfoView is important...
((SingleWeatherInfoView) findViewById(R.id.weather_1)).setRemoteImage(imgURL);
// or the same in two lines:
SingleWeatherInfoView swiv = (SingleWeatherInfoView)findViewById(R.id.weather_1);
swiv.setRemoteImage(imgURL);
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Let us know if it helped you.

Regards,
plusminus

michael22 · by **michael22** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 1:46 pm

thx for the answer.. but i dont get it, that is exactly my code.
after sleeping over this, it worked for me today.. dont know why.. maybe i just shouldnt work till 7am...

but that leads to the next problem. i can now change the value i needed, but i cant call repaint() in an ImageView. How can i force the application to repaint?

UPDATE: Solved using the handler in the pizza tutorial

thx

updating own views on click

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