title: Android's ViewFlipper initializing views
body: <p>In my application I have thee tabs in the ViewFlipper.
  When the activity is started I initialize all the tabs and the views inside of them.</p>
  
  <p>But the problem is at the 3th tab. On the initialization of this tab, I want to know the distance of an TextView to it parents left side. Therefor I call the TextView.getLeft().</p>
  
  <p>But when this tab isn't shown I receive '0' from this method. Therefor I can not initialize the view correctly.</p>
  
  <p>Now it becomes strange:
  When I start the activity to the first tab, then go to the third, the getLeft return 0 of startup and on tab click....
  But when I start the activity to the third tab, the getLeft returns a valid value....</p>
  
  <p>So, how can I get the correct value? 
  I guess the ViewFlipper doesn't have the correct X,Y coordinates of views when the tab isn't shown.</p>
  
  <p>Ps. It was hard to explain. If I need to clarify something, please let me know. </p>