Shapes in Layout

Hi,

The way you can handle this is to define a new drawable (which consists of your shape) and then use the id of that drawable in your layout.
As the error message says in Layout only <label/>, <drawable/> and <bitmap/> are supported.

See http://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/developer-tools/user-interface/ "Drawables" how to define them.

Best regards
|JO|

Thanks for the tip.
But what with that shape drawable which is documented in the page you are linking?
Was it never implemented even though it's documented?

My understanding is that a layout can only contain labels, bitmaps, and drawables. If you want a shape to be part of a layout you have to specify a drawable-list in an resource xml-file with all the shapes you want and then use <drawable id="your ID"/> in your layout definition to load it.

At least that's how it's described in the link and for me it worked. I guess that shapes have to be treated differently than labels and images in terms of rendering. Who knows... The main thing is it works ;)

Edit: the shape drawable should be used inside of your drawable-list definition. Read the linked page two or three times carefully and you'll understand the given code examples. If not I can post an example later.

shape are not working on SDK 2.1 either.
Tried epix and fenix too, none are supporting shapes.
Too bad, would have been practical.
The documentation should be updated really.

I see, another case of RTFM, my bad.
Still rather odd format but why not.