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Add button to a SlidingDrawer handle?

I've been working on this for a while. The Idea started simple, I wanted a button on a SlidingDrawer handle to allow the user to view settings specific to the content of the drawer. So I made a layout with a button off to the side and set it as the handle. The drawer drew fine, but would not allow the button (on the handle) to be pressed. When ever I try to click the thing, the click is interpreted as a handle click, and toggle the state of the drawer.

Does anyone know whats going on?

Thanks ~Aedon

Solution

  • You can suppress the action that interprets a click on the handle button as an "open" with an attribute in the SlidingDrawer element in the layout XML. Like this:

    <SlidingDrawer android:layout_width="fill_parent"android:id="@+id/SlidingDrawer" android:handle="@+id/slideHandleButton"
                    android:content="@+id/txtHolder" android:layout_height="fill_parent"
                    android:orientation="horizontal" android:allowSingleTap="false">

    Just make the android:allowSingleTap="false" Then just implement a click handler for the button like you normally would. This will stop it from opening/closing the drawer, but you might need to intercept the events for the button to get it to do what YOU want it to do.