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Why would my dynamically generated content not show up in tablelayout


I am trying to load some buttons into a table layout inside a fragment. Why would this not show up. I see that changing the background works (changed from grey to red in onCreateView(......)) but when i call loadAllButtons they do not show up.

public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
        if(container == null)
            return null;
        basedView = (TableLayout) inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_difficult_sound_syllable, container, false);
        currentSyllable = getArguments().getString(StaticValues.DIFFICULT_SOUND_SELECTOR);

        basedView.setBackgroundColor(Color.RED);
        return basedView;
}

Below is my loadAllButtons, and before anyone asks yes it says that everything is loaded (e.g. buttons and rows added, checked via logcat after row.add() and basedView.add())

private void loadAllButtons()
{

    DataBaseHelper tmpHelper = new DataBaseHelper(getActivity().getApplicationContext());
    ArrayList<ButtonInfoContainer> tmpArray = null;


    if(currentSyllable.contentEquals(StaticValues.CONSONANT))
    {
        tmpArray = tmpHelper.returnAllConsonants();
        Log.i(StaticValues.TAG, "returned all consonants");
    }
    else
    {
        tmpArray = tmpHelper.returnAllVowels();

        Log.i(StaticValues.TAG, "returned all vowels");
    }

    if(tmpArray != null)
    {
        TableRow row = null;
        InfoButton tmpButton = null;

        //LayoutParams rowParams = new LayoutParams(LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
        //TableRow.LayoutParams equalParams = new TableRow.LayoutParams(LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, 0); 
        LinearLayout.LayoutParams buttonLayout = new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT, LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT);

        if(basedView != null)
        {

            for(int i = 0; i < tmpArray.size(); i++)
            {

                //adds new row to table if modulus is 0
                if(( i % 2 ) == 0)
                {
                    row = (TableRow) getLayoutInflater(getArguments()).inflate(R.layout.table_row, null);
                    //row.setLayoutParams(rowParams);
                    basedView.addView(row);
                }

                tmpButton = (InfoButton) getLayoutInflater(getArguments()).inflate(R.layout.info_button, null);
                tmpButton.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.button_bg);
                tmpButton.setLayoutParams(buttonLayout);

                //set button Text
                tmpButton.setText(tmpArray.get(i).buttonText);
                //Obtain extra held info
                tmpButton.setExtraInfo(tmpArray.get(i).infoHeld);

                //tmpButton.setWidth(buttonWidth);
                //tmpButton.setHeight(buttonHeight);

                //tmpButton.setTextSize(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_DIP, textSize);
                tmpButton.setTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.button_text_color));
                tmpButton.setTypeface(Typeface.DEFAULT_BOLD);

                row.addView(tmpButton);
                tmpButton.setOnClickListener(listenerDynamicButton);
            }

        }
    }
}

For some reason even though my logcat outputs show that everything is all good (buttons showing proper names right amount of buttons) they table layout does not get populated.


Solution

  • Figured out the answer in regards to my own problem. everything after

    tmpButton = (InfoButton) getLayoutInflter()...
    

    to

    row.addView(tmpButton);
    

    had to be deleted except

    tmpButton.setText();
    

    and

    tmpButton.setExtraInfo(..);
    

    Although I do not know why those killed my layout. So if anyone figures that part out I will gladly accept that answer.