1 year later: Attribute 'x' is not allowed to appear in element 'drawable'.

We already had someone ask about the error

Attribute 'x' is not allowed to appear in element 'drawable'.

https://forums.garmin.com/developer/connect-iq/f/discussion/249145/attribute-x-is-not-allowed-to-appear-in-element-drawable

Surprising because the documentation says

> The following attributes are supported by the drawable tag:

and then mentions "id","x","y".

In the previous discussion, the suggestion is to pass parameters to custom drawables.

But a drawable can reference a bitmap ID. The documentation says "The ID provided here references the drawable defined in the resource XML file".

Ok, so if it's NOT a custom drawable, how to we set the x/y?

Kinda seems like we should stick fully to custom drawables, pass them whatever we want, and handle it ourselves ... because the XML layout system doesn't seem to be up to the task.

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7744773 over 2 years ago in reply to Brandon.ConnectIQ +1

And still it is incorrect. No changes are made in 8 months. This is very bad for new developers like me. It is really frustrating when we only have very little documentation (and no proper tutorials/guides…

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Brandon.ConnectIQ over 3 years ago

The answer to this was supplied in the earlier thread you linked, but we still have a documentation problem that needs to be addressed. I'll create a ticket to get it clarified.

Mark Bolusmjak over 3 years ago in reply to Brandon.ConnectIQ

Brandon.ConnectIQ how will a ticket clarify? What do I need to do to understand?

I've read the links in the thread I linked to. I explained why it seemed the answer wasn't there. Can you clarify here please?

Brandon.ConnectIQ over 3 years ago in reply to Mark Bolusmjak

I want to discuss this with the engineering team. At first glance, this appears to be a documentation issue, meaning that we probably shouldn't state that Drawables support those attribs. I'm honestly not sure about this one, and the ticket will facilitate getting this corrected, whether it's just a doc change or a bug fix.

Brandon.ConnectIQ over 3 years ago

Based on a conversation with the team this morning, the <drawable/> tag has never supported 'x' and 'y' attributes, so the docs are incorrect (and have been for quiet a log time, unfortunately). We'll revise this information in an upcoming SDK release.

7744773 over 2 years ago in reply to Brandon.ConnectIQ

And still it is incorrect. No changes are made in 8 months. This is very bad for new developers like me. It is really frustrating when we only have very little documentation (and no proper tutorials/guides) and that documentation happens to have incorrect information.