FrameLayout in ViewSwitcher doesn't resize!

[D_Ponsford]

Hi All, I have a problem with a FrameLayout inside a LinearLayout/ViewSwitcher which has been dogging me for days! Any help would be appreciated:

 

In the XML, I have a LinearLayout that defines a background theme, a ViewSwitcher inside that, and a LinearLayout in the first (upper) half of the ViewSwitcher. The upper half of the ViewSwitcher has several TextViews and a FrameLayout which places the frame in the bottom-right-hand corner of the screen. I insert a live image from the camera into that FrameLayout. So far, so good!

 

The 2nd half of the ViewSwitcher only has a single FrameLayout in it, in which I also insert the live camera view. I want this 2nd FrameLayout to fill the screen inside the background - but it doesn't.

 

The first screen and the swiping between the 2 switchable views works OK, but I can't get the single FrameLayout in the 2nd screen to fill the view (the background theme has a full-width button at the top and bottom - this displays OK). The 2nd switched view still has the small video frame in it. I've tried everything I can think of and searched what feels like every single relevant post on teh forum, but I can't get the 2nd FrameLayout to fill the screen.

 

I've tried putting the 2nd FrameLayout inside it's own LinearLayout, but to no avail.

If I move the single FrameLayout to the upper half of the ViewSwitcher (so that it appears first on onCreate), then I get the full-screen video image that I want, but then switching to the 2nd view gives me no video frame at all (but all the text views are there)!

 

Setting android:measureAllChildren="false" in the XML and switcher.setMeasureAllChildren(false); in the code makes no difference.

 

Here's the XML...

 

style="@style/background"

android:layout_width="match_parent"

android:layout_height="match_parent"

android:orientation="vertical" >

android:id="@+id/viewswitcher"

android:layout_width="fill_parent"

android:layout_height="0dp"

android:measureAllChildren="false"

android:layout_weight="1" >

***************

V I E W O N E

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-->

android:layout_width="match_parent"

android:layout_height="match_parent"

android:layout_marginLeft="1sp"

android:orientation="horizontal" >

android:layout_width="wrap_content"

android:layout_height="match_parent"

android:layout_marginRight="5sp"

android:orientation="vertical" >

android:id="@+id/txt1"

style="@style/normaltext"

android:layout_width="match_parent"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

android:layout_margin="1sp"

android:text="@string/str1" />

....

....

android:id="@+id/txt3"

style="@style/normaltext"

android:layout_width="match_parent"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

android:layout_margin="1sp"

android:text="@string/str2" />

android:layout_width="100dp"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

android:layout_marginLeft="1sp"

android:layout_marginRight="1sp"

android:layout_weight="0.38"

android:orientation="vertical" >

android:id="@+id/txt4"

style="@style/normaltext"

android:layout_width="wrap_content"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

android:layout_marginTop="1sp" />

....

....

android:id="@+id/txt5"

style="@style/normaltext"

android:layout_width="wrap_content"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

android:layout_marginTop="1sp"

android:text="@string/str3" />

android:layout_width="match_parent"

android:layout_height="match_parent" >

android:id="@+id/camimage"

android:layout_width="match_parent"

android:layout_height="wrap_content" >

***************

V I E W T W O

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-->

android:layout_width="fill_parent"

android:layout_height="fill_parent"

android:measureAllChildren="false"

android:layout_weight="1" >

android:id="@id/camimage"

android:layout_width="wrap_content"

android:layout_height="wrap_content" >

android:id="@+id/colour"

style="@style/button_style"

android:layout_width="match_parent"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

android:layout_gravity="bottom"

android:text="@string/ButtonDefault" />

 

I'm sure it's just a case of the Switcher taking the size of the first FrameLayout instance it sees and then it's stuck with that for both views, but I can't find a way to get it to resize the FrameLayout to fill the screen on the 2nd view.

Can anybody help with this?