Designer Bug

[aklisiewicz]

There is a little bug in designer which probably has to be taken care of.

When I place a view (i.e button) and setup left coordinate to 10, Designer keeps relocationg it and changes coordinates to 9 (that's in my case, not sure about other settings). Another words I save the Layout and after reopening the button is not exactly when it was positioned. This same thisn happens when I change some property or move button with the keyboard verticaly. In this case horizontal coordinate should remain the same but it doesn't.

Art

 

[tlangford]

I am also having the problem in the designer with the values for Left, Top, Width, and Height reducing by 1 when ever any change is made to the View. If I select a view with my mouse and then change any property, I also have to add 1 to L,T,W, &H because after changing focus (selecting another view) and then reselecting the view again, those four properties will be 1 less. Is it a bug or do I have a configuration problem of some kind?
Thanks,
Todd

 

[Erel]

Maybe this issue is related to the scale used.
What are the dimensions of the layout variant and of the emulator (including scale)?

 

[tlangford]

I am using 480x800 with a density of 217 in the emulator.
I am using 480x800 with a scale of 1.35625 (which gives me a density of 217) in the designer.

 

[Erel]

There are no devices with density of 217. The density of 480x800 devices is usually 240 (scale=1.5). If not it will be 160 (scale=1.0).

 

[tlangford]

When I did the calculation on the HTC Inspire or EVO I came up with 217. I thought that seemed odd so I checked it out on the web and had it confirmed in several places such as: Common Android Virtual Device Configurations

I guess I really don't understand what this should be.

 

[agraham]

It's a notional or logical density. Like Windows is usually 96dpi whatever the actual display density is so Android is always one of the values 0.75, 1.0, 1.5 or 2.0 representing 120, 160, 240 or 320 ppi.

 

[tlangford]

Thank you for the reply, problem solved!

 

[rgately]

I'm having the same problem in Designer when I left mouse click on a button, the button moves up by 1 pixel. My layout is 600x1024 with a scale of 1.5.

 

[Erel]

Does it happen with the abstract designer or the visual designer (emulator)?

 

[rgately]

It was in the Abstract Designer.

I went into the Abstract Designer this morning to reproduce the same problem but somehow its behaving properly now.

If I encounter the problem again, I'll try to provide you with more information.

PS: The behavior I experienced occurred whenever I left-clicked on a button that wasn't the highlighted button. If I clicked on the highlighted button, it would not move, just the newly highlighted button(s).