android: two issues using Tablerow+TextView in Tablelayout

Question

I am using Tablerow+TextView to make a simple view for blog posts and their replies. In each TableRow I put a TextView in. Now I have two issues:

1. The text which is longer than the screen won't automatically wrap up to be multi-line. Is it by design of TableRow? I've already set tr_content.setSingleLine(false); [update] This has been addressed, I think I should change Fill_parent to be Wrap_content in textView.tr_author_time.setLayoutParams(new LayoutParams( LayoutParams.**WRAP_CONTENT**, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT));

2. The Table won't scroll like ListView. My rows are more than the screen size. I expect the table could be scrolled down for viewing just like ListView. Is that possible?

Here is my code:

    TableLayout tl = (TableLayout) findViewById(R.id.article_content_table);
        TextView tr_title = new TextView(this);
    TextView tr_author_time = new TextView(this);
    TextView tr_content = new TextView(this);
    TableRow tr = new TableRow(this);

    for(int i = 0; i < BlogPost.size(); i++){
        try{
        // add the author, time
        tr = new TableRow(this);
        /////////////////add author+time row
        BlogPost article = mBlogPost.get(i);
        tr_author_time = new TextView(this);
        tr_author_time.setText(article.author+"("+
                article.post_time+")");
        tr_author_time.setTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.black));
        tr_author_time.setGravity(0x03);
        tr_author_time.setLayoutParams(new LayoutParams( 
                    LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT, 
                    LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT)); 
        tr.addView(tr_author_time); 
        tl.addView(tr,new TableLayout.LayoutParams( 
                LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT, 
                LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT));
        ////////////////////// then add content row
        tr = new TableRow(this);            
        tr_content = new TextView(this);
        tr_content.setText(article.content);
        tr_content.setSingleLine(false);
        tr_content.setGravity(0x03);
        tr_content.setLayoutParams(new LayoutParams( 
                    LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT, 
                    LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT));            
        tr.addView(tr_content);       
         tr.setBackgroundResource(R.color.white);
            tl.addView(tr,new TableLayout.LayoutParams( 
                    LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT, 
                    LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT));

    }   

Answer 1

This isn't really a complete answer, but it really seems like you're doing this the hard way.

Instead of constructing your TableRows manually, you should set them up in xml like this:

tablerow.xml:

<TableRow>
    <TextView android:id="@+id/content"
        android:singleLine="false"
        android:textAppearance="@style/someappearance" />
</TableRow>

Prior to your loop, get a reference to a LayoutInflater:

LayoutInflater inflater = getLayoutInflater();

Then, inside your loop, create an instance of tablerow using the LayoutInflater:

TableRow row = (TableRow)inflater.inflate(R.id.tablerow, tl, false);
TextView content = (TextView)row.findViewById(R.id.content);
content.setText("this is the content");

tl.addView(row);

This will allow you to set your layout, appearance, layout params in xml making it much easier to read and debug.

For the scrolling problem, you'll need to add your TableLayout to a ScrollView. Something like this in your xml:

<ScrollView>
    <TableLayout android:id="@+id/arcitle_content_table" />
</ScrollView>