Question

I am building a custom view and trying to figure out how to integrate it with the gui layout editor in eclipse. I have added the code below to my constuctor.

 public baseGrid(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
  super(context, attrs);

  if (attrs.getAttributeValue(null, "bufferTop") != null)
   bufferTop = Integer.parseInt(attrs.getAttributeValue(null, "bufferTop"));   
  ...

and it works to read this xml attribute (… bufferTop="10" …) from the xml layout file. However, is there a way to get bufferTop to show up in the GUI Property Editor as a property that I can set without editting the XML?

Thanks

Answer 1

Try to add “attrs.xml” file to “res/values” folder.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
     <declare-styleable name="MyAttrs">       
        <attr name="bufferTop"  format="dimension" />
        <attr name="myColor"    format="color" />
        <attr name="myInt"  format="integer" />        
        <attr name="myFloat"    format="float" />  
    </declare-styleable>    
</resources>

Read by this code:

public baseGrid(Context contxt, AttributeSet attrs) {
 TypedArray a = context.obtainStyledAttributes(attrs,
                R.styleable.MyAttrs);
 bufferTop  = a.getInt(R.styleable.MyAttrs_bufferTop, 10);
 a.recycle();
}

Define widgets in this way:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
< YOURPACKAGE.BaseGrid
        android:background="@drawable/red"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
        app:bufferTop="100"/>