Question

When I try to make a layout while working with the graphical layout interface in Eclipse (and not the xml) I came across with this problem:

Let’s say that my main layout is only a simple button on the bottom of the screen,
when clicked the button opens up a text box that covers most of the screen.

note : I do this be setting the visibility of the text box from GONE to VISIBLE (and the other way around when I want to hide the text box).

Now (the text box is hidden) I want to use the extra space I have and add a button to the main layout.
normally this isn’t much of a problem but since I have the text box covering almost the entire screen in the graphical layout I’m having a lot of trouble doing so (and this is just an example, I want to add more complicated things to my new gained space).

What can I do ? in the graphical layout I can’t hide an object (like text box or button) and I drag another button to that space I can see/work with it.

Answer 1

set the android:visibility attribute to "gone" while designing the layout