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how to change text in android TextView

hi, i tried to do this: @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.main); t=new TextView(this); t=(TextView)findViewById(R.id.TextView01); t.setText("Step One: blast egg"); try { Thread.sleep(10000); } catch (Interrupt...

Android: How to determine character index of a touch event's position in TextView?

I have a TextView with an OnTouchListener. What I want is the character index the user is pointing to when I get the MotionEvent. Is there any way to get to the underlying font metrics of the TextView? ...

iphone tableview cells with custom textview - get textview reference

Hi guys I have a UITableView with 15 cells, each with a separate text box in it. I have implemented UITextViewDelegate and I am able to received changed textview data using textViewDidChange (etc). But I have one big problem still, how do I know WHICH textview sent this, (i.e. in which cell was the textview altered?) Its interesting to...

VS2010 - Toolbox Drag-And-Drop in custom Language Service/Editor

Hi, My questions are: 1: Is Drag-And-Droping Toolbox controls (for example WPF controls) in a custom Language (Service) TextView possible? 2: Would I need a custom editor? Thanks! Satixx ...

android textview settext show nullpointer exception

<TextView android:id="@+id/first_name" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:background="@color/black" android:textColor="@color/light_grey" android:text="FirstName" ></TextView> TextView first_text_view; first_text_view = (TextView)this.findViewById(R.id.first_name); try { first_text_view.setT...

how to set MaxLenght in android TextView Programmatically?

friends, i want to set MaxLenght of TextView Through programming i cannot see Set function related to MaxLenght can any one guide me how to achieve this? i dont want hard code in layout. any help would be appriciated. ...

How to create a transparent textview on click over the running screen

How to create a transparent textview on click at the bottom of the running screen. Thanks in advance.... ...

Add newlines to a text resource in Android?

I have a custom Dialog that contains only a TextView to display some text in my application. The documentation lists that only the b, i, u, tt, big, small, sup, sub, and strike tags are supported. I really need to add some newlines for readability. Do I need to change to a more complicated layout, or is there some way to encode newlin...

How to linkify to in-built apps like Contacts?

I have an empty TextView set for my ListView. When there is no data, it shows the empty text, where I have description that they should go to Contacts application. How can I linkify "Contacts" word so when tapped opens the Contacts application? ...

ListView selection issue...Using onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, ...)

The problem I hope to resolve here is that when I click on one item in the ListView that item's background changes to light gray, but when I continue to scroll through the list every 4th item has the background changed to light gray even though those other items have not been clicked. How do I make only the item I clicked be effected by...

How can you display upside down text with a textview in Android?

How can you display upside down text with a textview in Android? In my case I have a 2 player game, where they play across from each other. I want to display test to the second player oriented to them. This was the solution I implemented after AaronMs advice The class that does the overriding, bab.foo.UpsideDownText package bab.fo...

how to add Continue String Sign like "..." in TextView?

if i add string in a TextView for example, this is my string and TextView max length is 4 It should look like in activity this... or t... that means string continue sign at the end of assigned string if string size is bigger than Max length. Can any one guide me what should i do or i will have to manually add "..." at the end of str...

Android: Create TextView that flashes when clicked

How do I set up a TextView to flash when it is clicked? With flashing I mean that I want to change the background color of the TextView. I essentially want one of the objects that is displayed in a ListActivity, but inside a normal View. I have tried to do this by adding an OnClickListener, but what I really need is something like add...

How to know all id's that i have in the file main.xml in android?

Hello guy's, i'm new at Android world, and i have a doubt, is there any method that give me the name of the id's i create in main.xml? For example i have this: main.xml <TextView android:id="@+id/text1" android:layout_width="70px" android:layout_height="70px" android:text="Google" /> <TextView android:id="@...

How can i know what TextView was clickbale?

Hello, i have one doubt. I have an iteration of TextViews, and what i want is when i click in one TextView , i want stop the iteration and open a web, who can i know what TextView as been click on? i have this code: Iterator<TextView> it = text.iterator(); while(it.hasNext()){ test = it.next(); test.setOnClickListener(new View...

Android -- How to scale/resize text to fit a TextView?

Hello all, I'm trying to create a method for resizing multi-line text in a TextView such that it fits within the bounds (both the X and Y dimensions) of the TextView. At present, I have something, but all it does is resize the text such that just the first letter/character of the text fills the dimensions of the TextView (i.e. only the ...

ellipsize problem with MaxLenght in TextView?

friends, i am using following TextView <TextView android:id="@+id/textLine" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:textSize="18px" android:singleLine="true" android:maxLength="27" android:ellipsize="end" android:textColor="#ffffff" android:layout_width="wrap_content" /> when i use MaxLenght ellipsize does n...

How to adjust text font size to fit textview

Hi, Is there any way in android to adjust the textsize in a textview to fit the space it occupies? E.g. I'm using a TableLayout and adding several textviews to each row. Since I don't want the textviews to wrap the text I rather see that it lowers the font size of the content. Any ideas? I have tried measureText, but since I don't kn...

Android: How to make current layout with scrollable text view?

I tried multiple solution but none seem to work. Layout: -------------------- |btn1| txt1 |btn2| -------------------- | | | | | | | txtview1 | | | | | | | -------------------- btn1 - top left aligned - decrease txt1 btn2 - t...

Show context menu when link is long pressed in TextView

I have a TextView with its MovementMethod set to LinkMovementMethod. Text added to the TextView is a combination of normal text and URLs. For URLs, I would like to offer a context menu when the URL is long pressed for doing things such as copying the address. I've had a look at the source for LinkMovementMethod but it doesn't seem to hav...