In my Activity after


I'd like to manually draw to the canvas of that View or add a Button.

I don't know how to get the canvas of the view.

I did the following to get the view:



But I still need to get it's canvas - I think I'm missing something important.
I don't know the hierarchical relationships between a View and its canvas/bitmap/drawable or whatever.
I already experimented with code-completion - things like

Can somebody explain it to me or point me to a webpage that explains it?

to prevent a misunderstanding:
I know how to write a class that derives from View and then write drawing-instructions into the onDraw()-Method, but this time I want to draw from within the Activity onto the canvas of an XML-constructed view.
Is this possible?

Thanks in advance.

what you need is just to rewrite the onDraw(Canvas canvas) of the view. it's simple

I think you got me wrong:
I'am not using a instantiated self-written View-class -
in other words I dont't have a View-derived class in my code.

instead the ui ist just plain xml-constructed in my 'main'-Activity and displayed via


Now - from within my 'main'-Activity I want to add something to that ui, maybe a button, or just draw a text on the canvas using

the problem is: a mcanvas or similar is just available inside the onDraw(Canvas mCanvas)-method of a View-Objekt <--I know this.

My question is:
Can I acces the canvas of the xml-constructed View to draw on it - from within my 'main'-Activity?

Greetings

Darvari

then I think it's impossible to draw view in activity

michael_g_hu wrote:then I think it's impossible to draw view in activity

Thanks for answering.
Darvari

Hi darvari;

Have u solved the problem??Becoz I m also trying to Draw something in the class which extends Activity.
If its not possible then what can I do to draw after using XML.
I think I have to use a class which extends View.Then It will be added on the layout used in the class which extends activity.
I dont know Its right or not......
Anyone can suggest me?????