Very hard to select an element in a layout after the layout has been selected

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Create a global linear layout (with fill_parent, fill_parent as width 
and height
2. Add a button in this layout
3. Click somewhere in the linear layout, then try to select the button !!

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
It is vey hard to select the button (but feasible)

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

Please provide any additional information below.
One workaround is to click on somewhere outside the layout, to unselect 
it, then click on the button. for instance clicking on the notification 
bar before clicking on the button is OK

Original issue reported on code.google.com by emmanuel...@gmail.com on 3 Feb 2009 at 1:44

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I have experienced this issue as well.

Original comment by stan.be...@gmail.com on 1 Apr 2009 at 8:28

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Ideally, if it showed a tree view of what you are building so you can easily 
navigate from one element to the next, it would be best.  

Original comment by charlesm...@gmail.com on 3 Sep 2010 at 1:22

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Issue 155 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by brendan....@gmail.com on 6 Sep 2010 at 4:38

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Issue 137 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by brendan....@gmail.com on 6 Sep 2010 at 4:39

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Issue 140 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by brendan....@gmail.com on 6 Sep 2010 at 5:06

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agree with comment 2. It's very hard to select something when place inside of 
another layout.

Original comment by grip...@gmail.com on 16 Sep 2010 at 6:02

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I have added a "Layout Explorer" which gives you a tree view of your complete 
layout.

Original comment by brendan....@gmail.com on 29 Apr 2012 at 4:38

• Changed state: Fixed