Question

I’ve an app where i’m wanting to place 2 circles on a bitmap. i’ve got 2 buttons, one for increasing the radius and one for decreasing the radius. The buttons are inflated from xml in the activity. the activity’s view is a custom view. i can get the buttons to show on the view and the both alter the radius variable accordingly. so far so good. i can’t get the view to invalidate when either button is clicked. what should happen, is when the button is clicked the radius is changed then the canvas redrawn to show the radius changes. How can i call invalidate from the onclick()? I’m not sure if this is the best way of doing this. thanks.
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import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.AsyncTask;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.Window;
import android.view.WindowManager;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.widget.Button;

public class Jjilapp extends Activity {




    private static final String TAG = "*********jjil";


    @Override 
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
        getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN,
                WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN);

        setContentView(R.layout.touchview);
        final TouchView touchView = (TouchView)findViewById(R.id.touchview); 
        final HorizontalSlider slider = (HorizontalSlider)findViewById(R.id.slider); 
        touchView.initSlider(slider);

        Button plus = (Button)findViewById(R.id.plus);
        plus.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

            @Override
            public void onClick(View arg0) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                Log.e(TAG, "onClickplus");
                TouchView.setRadius(TouchView.getRadius() + 5);
                Log.e(TAG, "radius = "+TouchView.getRadius());
            }}) ;





         Button minus = (Button)findViewById(R.id.minus);
         minus.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

            @Override
            public void onClick(View arg0) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub

                TouchView.setRadius(TouchView.getRadius() - 5);
                Log.e(TAG, "radius = "+TouchView.getRadius());

                TouchView.invalidate();// DOESN'T WORK***************

            }}) ;







    }//end of oncreate




}//end of jjilapp

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public class TouchView extends View{



    private static int radius = 50;




    public TouchView(Context context) {
        super(context);

    }




    public TouchView(Context context, AttributeSet attr) {
        super(context,attr);
        Log.e(TAG, "++++++++++ inside touchview constructor");





    pTouch = new Paint(Paint.ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG);         
    pTouch.setXfermode(new PorterDuffXfermode(Mode.SRC_OUT)); 
    pTouch.setColor(Color.TRANSPARENT);
    pTouch.setStyle(Paint.Style.STROKE);


    }// end of touchView constructor






    @Override
    public void onDraw(Canvas canvas){
        super.onDraw(canvas);

        Log.e(TAG, "******about to draw bgr ");
        canvas.drawBitmap(bgr, 0, 0, null);



       canvas.drawCircle(centreX, centreY, radius,pTouch);
       canvas.drawCircle(centreA, centreB, radius,pTouch);
        }

    }//end of onDraw



    public static int getRadius() {
        return radius;
    }




    public static void setRadius(int r) {
        radius = r;
    }




}

Answer 1

You are using the class’s function and not the object, meaning you use :

TouchView.function()

instead of

touchView.function()

invalidate is not a static function, so you need to call it directly on the object itself. Don’t forget to use postInvalidate() in case you are updating the view from a non-UI thread.