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PORandomising placement of Buttons
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copied!<p>I have a simple quiz game which is working well but the one problem I am having is that the answer and options to the questions are displayed on buttons but the answer button appears in the same place everytime. </p> <p>Is there a way to randomise the positioning through the XML interface or would it be better to handle this on the coding side?</p> <p>Below is the code I am using for the XML and the code I use to bind the data value from SQLite to the buttons. Any advice would be much appreciated.</p> <pre><code>private void showQuestions(Cursor cursor) { // Collect String Values from Query StringBuilder questiontxt = new StringBuilder(""); StringBuilder answertxt1 = new StringBuilder(""); StringBuilder answertxt2 = new StringBuilder(""); StringBuilder answertxt3 = new StringBuilder(""); StringBuilder answertxt4 = new StringBuilder(""); while (cursor.moveToNext()) { String question = cursor.getString(2); String answer = cursor.getString(3); String option1 = cursor.getString(4); String option2 = cursor.getString(5); String option3 = cursor.getString(6); questiontxt.append(question).append(""); answertxt1.append(answer).append(""); answertxt2.append(option1).append(""); answertxt3.append(option2).append(""); answertxt4.append(option3).append(""); } // Display answer button TextView answer = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.option1_button); answer.setText(answertxt1); //Display question TextView text = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.text); text.setText(questiontxt); TextView optionbutton1 = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.option2_button); optionbutton1.setText(answertxt2); TextView optionbutton2 = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.option3_button); optionbutton2.setText(answertxt3); TextView optionbutton3 = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.option4_button); optionbutton3.setText(answertxt4); } </code></pre> <p>And the XML</p> <pre><code><Button android:id="@+id/option1_button" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_above="@+id/option3_button"/> <Button android:id="@+id/option2_button" android:text="@string/option2_label" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_alignParentRight="true" android:layout_above="@+id/option4_button"/> <Button android:id="@+id/option3_button" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="@string/option3_label" android:layout_alignParentLeft="true" android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"/> <Button android:id="@+id/option4_button" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="@string/option4_label" android:layout_alignParentRight="true" android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"/> </code></pre>

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