make a toggle button "greyed out"

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Hey guys,
Is there anyway to disable a toggle button and make it "greyed out"? I could just make it invisible but I think it would make more sense to the user if they could see that the button was not available rather than just having it disappear. I figured this would be pretty standard but I don't see it anywhere. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Samuel Maskell

What's the purpose of the button?

You could just leave it there and not process based on code in the Listener.

Yeah, I was thinking of just making it display a toast message or something
but it would really be nice if I could change the appearance of the button
maybe I can play around with changing the background a bit..

Why not just setEnabled(false); ?

so I tried just using setBackgroundColor(Color.DKGRAY) but that failed miserably..
I can use getBackground() to get a Drawable object
so I should be able to take that object and make it darker
and then use setBackgroundDrawable, right?
I'm just not too sure how to go about making that drawable darker..

Originally Posted by Gene Poole

Why not just setEnabled(false); ?

Didn't see your post last time. I am using setEnabled(false), but this does not change the appearance of the button. How are users supposed to know that the button is disabled? They'll just press it and think that the application froze or something because nothing will happen. If I could make the button darker and disable it, I think people would get the idea that it is disabled and not just broken.

Thanks,
Sam

apparently the background isn't what I want to change. Not sure what I should be doing exactly..

have you tried toggle.setColorFilter(0xAARRGGBB, Mode.SRC_ATOP); ?

you'd need to find the correct #AARRGGBB code for a greyish color, but it should work.

EDIT: Ok, so after playing around with the settings a bit I found that this works pretty nicely for greying something out toggle.setColorFilter(0xA6A6A6A6, Mode.SRC_ATOP);

ToggleButton doesn't seem to have a setColorFilter() class
did you do toggle.getBackground.setColorFilter() or something like that?

Actually, I was using setColorFilter on an ImageButton, that's probably why... sorry :P