Question

I want to create one button/layout object dynamically from the object that exist on the current layout and want to handle both differently..

Here is my code that I implemented..

declared globally

Button btnStart, btnButton1, btnButton2, btnButton3;

and in OnCreate()

btnStart = (Button) findViewById(R.id.btnStart);
btnButton1 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.Button1);
btnButton2 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.Button2);

btnButton3 = btnButton1; // Problem comes here.

I want to create btnButton3 dynamically same as btnButton1. On clicking the
btnStart I am running animations for btnButton1, btnButton2 and btnButton3.

Now the issue is btnButton2 running animation fine.. but btnButton1 is not animating
and instead btnButton3 is animating.

Here’s my complete code..

public class TweenAnimationActivity extends Activity {
    /** Called when the activity is first created. */

    Button btnStart, btnButton1, btnButton2, btnButton3;    
    FrameLayout mainLayout;

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);

        mainLayout = (FrameLayout) findViewById(R.id.flMain);

        WindowManager wm = (WindowManager) getSystemService(Context.WINDOW_SERVICE);
        Display display = wm.getDefaultDisplay();
        int width = display.getWidth();
        int height = display.getHeight();

        Log.e("Dimension", "Width : " + width + "  Height : " + height);

        btnStart = (Button) findViewById(R.id.btnStart);
        btnButton1 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.Button1);
        btnButton2 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.Button2);

        btnButton3 = btnButton1;
//      btnButton3.setLayoutParams(relativeParams);

        final Animation animation = new TranslateAnimation(0, 0, 0,
                height - 220);
        animation.setDuration(5000);
        animation.setFillAfter(true);
        animation.setAnimationListener(new AnimationListener() {

            @Override
            public void onAnimationStart(Animation animation) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                btnButton1.setText("Moving");
            }

            @Override
            public void onAnimationRepeat(Animation animation) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub

            }

            @Override
            public void onAnimationEnd(Animation animation) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                btnButton1.setText("Moved");
            }
        });

        final Animation animation1 = new TranslateAnimation(0, 0, 0,
                -(height - 220));
        // animation1.setStartOffset(1000);
        animation1.setDuration(5000);
        animation1.setFillAfter(true);
        animation1.setAnimationListener(new AnimationListener() {

            @Override
            public void onAnimationStart(Animation animation) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                btnButton2.setText("Moving");
            }

            @Override
            public void onAnimationRepeat(Animation animation) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub

            }

            @Override
            public void onAnimationEnd(Animation animation) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                btnButton2.setText("Moved");
            }
        });

//      final Animation animation2 = new TranslateAnimation(0, 0, -(width - 220),
//              height - 220);
        final Animation animation2 = new TranslateAnimation(0, 0, (width - 220),
                height - 220);
        animation2.setDuration(5000);
        animation2.setFillAfter(true);
        animation2.setAnimationListener(new AnimationListener() {

            @Override
            public void onAnimationStart(Animation animation) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                btnButton3.setText("MovingCopied");
            }

            @Override
            public void onAnimationRepeat(Animation animation) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub

            }

            @Override
            public void onAnimationEnd(Animation animation) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                btnButton3.setText("MovedCopied");
            }
        });


        btnStart.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                btnButton1.startAnimation(animation);
                btnButton2.startAnimation(animation1);
                btnButton3.startAnimation(animation2);
            }
        });

    }
}

any here’s my layout..

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/flMain"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent" >


    <Button
        android:id="@+id/btnStart"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Start" />


    <Button
        android:id="@+id/Button1"
        android:layout_width="100dp"
        android:layout_height="100dp"
        android:layout_gravity="top|right"
        android:text="Button1" />


    <Button
        android:id="@+id/Button2"
        android:layout_width="100dp"
        android:layout_height="100dp"
        android:layout_gravity="bottom|right"
        android:text="Button2" />

</FrameLayout>

Answer 1

In your code, btnButton3 = btnButton1, you have not created button3 object just created a reference of button1.
try

 btnButton3 = new Button(this)
 btnButton3.setLayoutParams(btnButton1.getLayoutParams());  
 mainLayout.addView(btnButton3);

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