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    copied!<p>I am currently trying to make a game based on the old school battleship board game using android. I am kinda just messing around at the moment trying to get a feel for it and for the components that I may need to make the game. </p> <p>Basically what I have at the moment in my layout xml file is the following:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt; &lt;RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" &gt; &lt;org.greene.battleship.BoardView android:id="@+id/board_view" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:clickable="true" /&gt; &lt;RelativeLayout android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent"&gt; &lt;org.greene.battleship.ShipView android:id="@+id/ships_view" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:clickable="true" /&gt; &lt;/RelativeLayout&gt; &lt;/RelativeLayout&gt; </code></pre> <p>I want the BoardView to only take up a certain portion of the screen i.e. the view should be size of the content that I want to create in this view. Which in this case is a 2D board. This is done by overriding the onMeasure() method from extending View. The view's width is kept the same but the height is given the same value as the width giving a perfect square.</p> <pre><code>@Override protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec){ int parent_width = MeasureSpec.getSize(widthMeasureSpec); this.setMeasuredDimension(parent_width, parent_width); Log.d("BOARD_VIEW", "BoardView.onMeasure : width = " + this.getMeasuredWidth() + ", height = " + this.getMeasuredHeight()); } </code></pre> <p>I check to see if the views dimensions have changed by overriding the views onSizeChanged() function and checking the values there. </p> <pre><code>@Override protected void onSizeChanged(int w, int h, int oldw, int oldh){ Log.d("BOARD_VIEW", "BoardView.onSizeChanged : width = " + w + ", height = " + h); board = new Board(w, h, game_activity); super.onSizeChanged(w, h, oldw, oldh); } </code></pre> <p>As can be seen from the layout file, I then have a RelativeLayout view group that holds another custom view called ShipView as a child. And ideally what I want to have happen is when I go to measure its dimensions, its dimensions have been confined to what has been set in onMeasure. I check the dimensions of the ShipView via its onMeasure() method in a similar way.</p> <pre><code>@Override protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec){ int parent_width = MeasureSpec.getSize(widthMeasureSpec); int parent_height = MeasureSpec.getSize(heightMeasureSpec); Log.d("SHIP_VIEW", "ShipView.onMeasure : width = " + parent_width + ", height = " + parent_height); this.setMeasuredDimension(parent_width, parent_height); super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec); } </code></pre> <p>The log files show me the following (the onMeasure() method seems to get called more than once but all the values are the same so I wont bother showing the multiple logs as the values are all the same) : </p> <pre><code>05-04 16:36:19.428: DEBUG/BOARD_VIEW(405): BoardView.onMeasure : width = 320, height = 320 05-04 16:36:19.939: DEBUG/BOARD_VIEW(405): BoardView.onSizeChanged : width = 320, height = 320 05-04 16:36:20.429: DEBUG/SHIP_VIEW(405): ShipView.onMeasure : width = 320, height = 430 </code></pre> <p>It seems that when I get the dimensions via the ShipViews onMeasure() nothing has changed and ignores the dimension restrictions I have set. I am not sure whether it has something to do with the RelativeLayout of the ShipView. Do I have to set the LayoutParams for that since they have changed? I thought that if you change the views dimension of the parent it would have been passed down to the children.</p> <p>Whether this is the right way to go about doing this for a game of this sort is definitely up for discussion but either way I would like to know how it can be done (I presume it can..?). Any help would be much appreciated.</p>
 

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