Question

­I’m coding with API 8.
I need to get coordinates X and Y from a View and and set them as the coordinates of a new Button.
I tried different ways but nothing works….

The setX and getX method works only from api level 11, I need a way to do that on API8.

This is my method that allow to create a draggable copy of a button (this copy is an imageview and when I drop it became a new button)

public boolean dragCopy(View view, MotionEvent me, Button bt){ 

        int x,y,w,h,id,t,l;
        int cont=-1;
        int coord[] = new int[2];


        bt2=new Button(this);


        id = bt.getId();
        bt2.setId(id);

        Resources res = getResources();

        cont = FindCont(bt, vector); 

        dr = getLetter(bt, dr,  res, vector, cont);
        w=dr.getIntrinsicWidth();
        h=dr.getIntrinsicHeight();


        if (me.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN) {
            //clicked on the button. DRAG START
            status = START_DRAGGING;
            image = new ImageView(this);

            //set image drawable
            image.setImageDrawable(dr);
            image.setPadding((int)bt.getLeft(),(int)bt.getTop(), 0, 0);
            layout.addView(image, params);


        }
        if (me.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP) {

            //button released. DROP
                        status = STOP_DRAGGING;
            x = (int) me.getRawX();
            y = (int) me.getRawY();

                        //create button compy from image
            bt2.setBackgroundDrawable(dr);
            bt2.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);

                        //PROBLEMS  
            t= image.getTop();
            l= image.getLeft();
            bt2.setPadding(l, t, 0, 0);
            System.out.println("**************** T: "+t +"--- L: "+l);
            image.setVisibility(View.GONE);
                bt2.setLayoutParams(image.getLayoutParams());

                bt2.setWidth(w);
            bt2.setHeight(h);

            layout.addView(bt2);
                bt2.setDrawingCacheEnabled(true);
            bt2.setOnTouchListener(this);
            bt2.invalidate(); 
            image.invalidate();


        } else if (me.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE) {

                        //i'm moving the image
            if (status == START_DRAGGING) {

                image.setPadding((int) me.getRawX(), (int) me.getRawY(), 0, 0);
                image.invalidate();

            }
        }
        return false;
    }

Answer 1

i’ve recreate my drag and drop using andengine. Works great and better than before