Hi,

Can someone tell me how to use the ScaleDrawable class? In particular, instantiating it. There is only one constructor:

public ScaleDrawable(Drawable drawable, int gravity, float scaleWidth, float scaleHeight)

...but it has no supporting javadoc documentation. What is the gravity constant I must pass? I guess I want the drawable which is contained in the ScaleDrawable to appear pretty much to the left of the canvas, with perhaps a bit of padding. What should the scaleWidth and scaleHeight values be? I know from the description of the class that this is the right one for my purpose (to display a static, non-moving progress-bar-like image) but I can't work out how to do this. Let's say the view that contains this image is 150px x 30px and i want the progress to show 1/3, how do I use ScaleDrawable to do this?

cheers,
Ian

Anyone?

androidian wrote:I know from the description of the class that this is the right one for my purpose (to display a static, non-moving progress-bar-like image)

That doesn't sound like ScaleDrawable to me. ScaleDrawable is used to, um, scale drawables--to change the size of a drawable. And once you know that, all those attributes that you're puzzling about become quite clear.

Have you considered using a ProgressBar to display a "static, non-moving progress-bar-like image" ?

-S

Thanks for the reply.

Sparkletron wrote:That doesn't sound like ScaleDrawable to me.

From the two line description of ScaleDrawable: " Most often used to implement things like progress bars." That's why I was interested in it. The ProgressBar widget is definitely overkill for my purposes, as the values never change (the image never updates) and spawning threads for what is essentially a pre-renderable image is not good.

Anyway, in the end I was probably overthinking this. I ended up just using a ShapeDrawable and modifying its bounds to get the desired effect. Hence, my onDraw method of my custom View looks like this (assuming that percentage is the relative width of the progress bar I wish to display):

protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {

LayoutParams layoutParams = getLayoutParams();
maxHeight = layoutParams.height - (2 * padding);
maxWidth = layoutParams.width - (2 * padding);

width = StrictMath.round(percentage * maxWidth / 100);

mRect = new Rect(padding, padding, padding + width, padding + maxHeight);
mShapeDrawable.setBounds(mRect);

canvas.save();
mShapeDrawable.draw(canvas);
canvas.restore();
}

cheers,
Ian