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how to create editable spinner in android?

friends, can any one guide me how to create editable spinner in android? any help would be appriciated. ...

How to disable onItemSelectedListener to be invoked when setting selected item by code

Hi there! Just wondering how you handle the following problem: a result is calculated depending on two spinners' selected items. To handle the UI things, i.e. a user picks a new item in one of the spinners, I install a listener using setOnItemSelectedListener for the spinner in my onCreate() method of the activity. Now: that works, of ...

How do you retrieve the array adapter currently set for a spinner? Android OS, Droid

Looking to create a menu toggle that switches between two possible arrays for a spinner. For example, if the spinner is set to show array A, then when I press this menu button, I want the spinner to be set to array B. If I press it again, I want it to be set back to array A. I can handle the if/then statements and all, but how do I call...

How can I display a "waiting" indicator on a web page whilst the http request is being fulfilled by the webserver?

Hi, Background - I have a web application for which a request takes several seconds. Question - How could I display a "waiting" type indicator (e.g. spinner) to the user after they initiate the request, until the actual HTTP request response comes back from the server? Notes - I'm assuming this to be a generic web development questio...

How to catch fire of onItemSelected of a Spinner, after the interface has been setup?

I am having an Android view with a Spinner on it. I call a populateSpinner() method to add some default values to it. I also have a onItemSelected() event which gets called before the view is completed to print. I would like to run a code inside this block only when the user changes the selected items, not when I add or the form gets cr...

How to set selected item of Spinner by value, not by position?

I have a update view, where I need to preselect the value stored in database for a Spinner. I was having in mind something like this, but the Adapter has no indexOf method, so I am stuck . void setSpinner(String value) { int pos=getSpinnerField().getAdapter().indexOf(value); getSpinnerField().setSelection(pos); ...

Android: How to set the maximum size of a Spinner?

Here is my layout <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:id="@+id/LinearLayout01" android:layout_height="wrap_content"> <Spinner android:text="@+id/AutoCompleteTextView01" an...

UIActivityIndicatorView not spinning till I go back to Parent UITableView

I have an App using UITableViews and fetching data from a server. I am attempting to put a UIActivityIndicatorView on the Parent UITableView, so it spins while the Child UITableView is loading. I have the UIActivityIndicatorView all hookedup through Interface Builder, etc. -(void)spinTheSpinner { NSLog(@"Spin The Spinner"); NSA...

how to use spinner

I am very new to android. I want to use 2 spinners in my application, one shows the countries list, when any country is selected the other spinner should show the list of cities of that country. when city is selected some action is performed. plz help me with some sample code. thanks in anticipation ...

How to suppress Spinner double clickable problem of Android.

How to suppress Spinner double clickable problem of Android. Try launch any application that having Spinner. Then double tap it. It will show context menu twice. ...

How to show own view in Spinner Widget instead of Text View?

I have a selection for some items using a spinner widget. At the moment the spinner will load a simple Textview and show the name of the item. It is possible to define an own view to show inside the spinner row? I would suspect it being similar to a custom List row. I simply want to show an individual icon left from the spinner text f...

How to grey out spinner in Android?

I use two Spinner in my App. One of them is initially disabled because I need the user to select something in the first spinner to load the content of the second one. I would like to change the design of the second spinner to show the user that the spinner is not active, eg. grey the spinner out. How can I achieve this? If this is not...

Android Bind Spinner to Class

I'm having some trouble with the Spinner widget. Given the following code: ArrayList<Person> people= new ArrayList<Person>(); Person = null; for(int i = 0; i!= 10; i++) { p = new Person(); s.setID(i); s.setName("Name " + i); people.add(s); } I'm using the following code to bind it to a ...

Truncated string in android spinners

On the iPhone, if an option is too long for the area, instead of wrappeing you get a "..." at the end of the "drop down" and the user will know there is more text than is shown. I want to recreate this with android but am new to it so cant see how. I want the heights of "rows" in my layout to be uniform hence not able to wrap the text....

How to color and alignment spinner item on android?

I'm try to change text color and align item in spinner to center of it how can I do this here is my code String[] li={"1","2","3"}; final Spinner combo = (Spinner)findViewById(R.id.widget30); ArrayAdapter<String> a = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this,android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item, li); combo.setAdapter(a); ...

Android Spinner not displaying list items.

I think I am going crazy right now. I am trying to create a spinner populated by a datatable but for some reason the dropdown list items text is not being displayed. I have looked all over and have seen other posts with people having this same problem. Can anyone help?? speciesList = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.speciesList); sp...

setSelection on Spinner based on rowId

Hi! I have a Spinner View that's populated through a SimpleCursorAdapter. Based on the selection I need to save the rowid in the entry database (position won't work because things can be added and deleted from the Spinner Database). This I can do by using spinner.getAdapter().getItemId(pos) . But When I edit an entry I need to make the ...

Backflip Testing Results

Good Morning, I got my app to install on the Backflip and started testing it. On the emulator everything appeared ok but on the Backflip there are a few notable differences. I have edittext boxes which on the emulator automatically vary in size to accommodate the text. The text is a number, the max being two digits, i.e., 1-99. On t...

Android: How to keep onItemSelected from firing off on a newly instantiated Spinner

I've thought of some less than elegant ways to solve this, but I know I must be missing something. My onItemSelected fires off immediately without any interaction with the user, and this is undesired behavior. I wish for the UI to wait until the user selects something before it does anything. I even tried setting up the listener in th...

Setting the position within a spinner

Good Afternoon, I have a spinner array containing 3 spinners. Each spinner is populated via a res string array. Each array contains the numbers 1-100. When the activity starts each spinner contains a string array of 1-100 and when you click on a spinner the first choice is 1. Say a user picks 25 on the first spinner. I'd like the 2n...