Retain button panel between activities

mc73

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• Jan 22, 2013

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I think you can use a class for this.

 

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sconlon

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• Jan 23, 2013

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Thanks for the suggestion but I very little knowledge of Java and classes so I don't think I would be able to do it that way.

 

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wy328

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• Jan 23, 2013

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sconlon said:

Thanks for the suggestion but I very little knowledge of Java and classes so I don't think I would be able to do it that way.

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i think it's b4a class moudle, not java

 

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sconlon

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• Jan 23, 2013

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Any idea where I might find it? I have searched this and other forums and found nothing that looks like the thing you are referring to.

 

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Erel

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• Jan 23, 2013

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mc73 meant that you can implement this bar in a class and then create an instance of this class in each activity. This will allow you to reuse the bar code.

 

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sconlon

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• Jan 23, 2013

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Sorry, I misunderstood the suggestion. But I'm still not sure if that will achieve what I want. For example, I load the main layout which has a height of 90%y and then load the button panel into the bottom 10%y. The user then taps one of the buttons which starts a new activity that loads its own layout but this also requires a reload of the button panel, at least that's what seems to happen in my tests so far. What I need is for the second activity to load its layout and leave the button panel intact and visible.

I hope that explains better what I want to do!

 

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mc73

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• Jan 23, 2013

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Here's a class provided by Erel, the tableView. It's not what you're looking for, but it should give you what you need to know, in order to builg your very own class for the purpose you need. Just follow the code

 

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sconlon

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• Jan 23, 2013

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I understand Erel's class ok but I still don't see how it will provide a solution. The problem (or at least my understanding of it) is that when you switch between activities the layout from the previous activity, in my case the button panel, is no longer 'displayed' and visible so the new activity needs to reload it, which doesn't give a smooth transition as the switch is plainly visible on the screen. It's really a UI appearance issue and the code to handle the button panel events is not the issue .

 

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Erel

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• Jan 23, 2013

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You will need to recreate all of the views when a new activity is shown.

You can use a solution such as SlidingPanels or one of the similar classes / libraries. These solutions use a single activity. You can still implement your code with multiple classes.

 

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sconlon

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• Jan 23, 2013

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Thanks, I'll have a look at the Sliding panels approach.

 

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