Hi,
i want to use basic views like text view, button view, List view to draw in canvas.

I dont know its possible or not. if its possible then how?

I also saw link in this forum to add view in a view but i cant understand more. also saw the forum of "Stateful

CustomImageButton with programatic Draw" but cant succeed.

Please if any one know then tell me.

Thanks in advance.

You can use a ViewGroup and add imageViews and TextViews to this ViewGroup, then, once you have the ViewGroup constructed you can call

dispatchDraw(canvas);

to draw the Viewgroup in the canvas.

Hint. You should do .layout() on every children you insert in the ViewGroup.

Hope this helps

Thanks for reply,
I have tried but not succeed. its not display any thing. here my code is,

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public class start0 extends Activity {
   
   String msg="Hi, I am Merlin.Your New Game Teacher";

   @Override
   public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
      super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
      View panel = RnD1();
      setTitle("Wel come");
      
      setTitleColor(Color.BLUE);
      
      Window w  = getWindow();                     
      w.requestFeature(Window.FEATURE_LEFT_ICON);   
      setContentView(panel);
      w.setFeatureDrawableResource(Window.FEATURE_LEFT_ICON, R.drawable.favorites);
      
   }

   @Override
   public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
      MenuItem item1 = menu.add(0, 1, 0, "Start");
      item1.setIcon(R.drawable.alert);
      return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
   }

   @Override
   public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
      if (item.getTitle().equals("Start")) {

         Intent start = new Intent(this, start.class);
         startActivity(start);
         this.finish();
      
      }
      return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
   }
   
   
   public ViewGroup RnD1() {
      
      LinearLayout panel = new LinearLayout(this);
      panel.setOrientation(LinearLayout.VERTICAL);
      
      ImView v = new ImView(this);
      panel.addView(v);
      return panel;
   
   }
      
   
   public class ImView extends ViewGroup {
      Movie movie;
      InputStream is = null;
      long moviestart;
      Shader shader;
      
      public ImView(Context context) {
         super(context);
         is = context.getResources().openRawResource(R.drawable.cartoon);
         movie = Movie.decodeStream(is);
         
         LinearLayout panel1 = new LinearLayout(start0.this);
         panel1.setOrientation(LinearLayout.VERTICAL);
         
         TextView t = new TextView(start0.this);
         t.setText("Wel come in view group");
         t.setLayoutParams(new LayoutParams(LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT,
               LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT));
         
         panel1.addView(t);
         
      }

      @Override
      protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
            dispatchDraw(canvas);
         
      /*   long now = android.os.SystemClock.uptimeMillis();
         Bitmap bm = null;
         setBackgroundColor(Color.WHITE);
         if (moviestart == 0) { // first time
            moviestart = now;
         }
         Paint p = new Paint();
         p.setTextSize(18);
         p.setColor(Color.BLACK);
         p.setAntiAlias(true);
         p.setAlpha(250);
         Typeface face = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(),
               "BRADHITC.TTF");
         p.setTypeface(face);
         shader = new LinearGradient(0, 0, 200, 0, new int[] {
               Color.argb(255, 120, 120, 120),
               Color.argb(255, 120, 120, 120),
               Color.argb(255, 255, 255, 255) },
               new float[] { 0, 0.7f, 1 }, TileMode.MIRROR);
         p.setShader(shader);
         
         int relTime = (int) ((now - moviestart) % movie.duration());
         movie.setTime(relTime);
         movie.draw(canvas, 150, 120);
         Log.i("tag","Movie duration"+movie.duration());
         bm = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(this.getResources(),
               R.drawable.mes);

         canvas.drawBitmap(bm, 0, 0, new Paint());

         long lastTime = 0;
         float elapsed = (now - lastTime) / 7;
         float dx = elapsed;
         Matrix matrix = new Matrix();
         matrix.setTranslate(dx, 0);
         shader.setLocalMatrix(matrix);
         canvas.drawText(msg,0,16,40,50, p);
         canvas.drawText(msg,16,37,05,70, p);
         lastTime = now;
*/
         //this.invalidate();
      }

      @Override
      protected void onLayout(boolean changed, int l, int t, int r, int b) {
          int count = getChildCount();
             for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) {
                  View child = getChildAt(i);
                  if (child.getVisibility() != GONE) {
                       LayoutParams lp = (LayoutParams) child.getLayoutParams();
                       int cl = 100;
                       int ct = 100;
                       int cr = 100;
                       int cb = 100;
                       child.layout(cl, ct, cr, cb);
                  }
             }
         
      }

   }
}



please tell me solution if possible.

Im working in something similar...

Have you tried to do the "layout" on every child but outside the onLayout?

Anyway I am not sure if that is valid.

hi,
I think you are telling to set layout parameters of component. so i have set it in the view group only at the time of defining it. but if you telling to call layout() and from that onLayout to each component then i hv tried on that but not succeed.

if you are succeed then tell me please.
anyways thanks for help.

I was looking your code more carefully.

Tell me if Im wrong, but, do you add the LinearLayout to the GroupView in the ImView constructor?

Because you create a LinearLayout, and you add to it a TextView...but nothing happens with the LinerLayout.

hi,
Actually we have to add view in view group not layout.
and i think i am right with that.
i have declared panel1 as linear layout and then also i have declared text view in its own different layout and then
add it to my main layout.

Thanks but i think its right but the problem is some where else.