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Android TextView

Hi! I have an Android TextView where the view itself is limited to four lines. If the text exceeds this limit I want the end of the view to end with something like .. <-- to notify that there is more text here so you can click and open in fullscreen for example. Not just suddenly stop in the middle of a sentence. Is there a quick fix fo...

Focus next textview automatically

I have a TextView with android:maxLength set to 3 and another with android:maxLength set to 7. I want focus to automatically move to the second TextView once the 3 chars of the first TextView are filled up. Is this possible without inheriting TextView and writing a custom implementation ? ...

Copy text from TextView on Android

I have a ListView where each item is a TextView. I want to enable the long press behavior similar to an EditText that displays the default context menu with items like "Select all", "Cut all", "Copy all", etc. Is there an easy way to enable this for a TextView? ...

How to get a TextView in Android have Horizontal Scrolling and autoscrolled?

I want to have a simple TextView with horizontal scrolling, I know that I use HorizontalScrollview for that and I want the text to be autoscrolled continuously. Is that possible? ...

Android - Convert Button to TextView at runtime

Is it possible to convert a Button into a TextView onclick during runtime? Thanks Chris ...

In an Android TextView, is it possible to insert paragraphs?

Below is an example of the type of problem that I have. I have data in a pojo that I need to display in a textview... the data has pseudo code that denotes each paragraph with [p] I would like to somehow parse the [p]'s into paragraphs when they are displayed in the textview. Can this be done? Is there something I can substitute for the...

Can I use a drawable as a shadowColor in a TextView?

I have a TextView and I want to give it a glowing effect using an image from the res/drawable folder. How can I do this? ...

How to adjust line height in TextView with multiple type sizes?

I have a TextView that holds a Spannable string. The string contains a bunch of text, the first word of which is double the typesize as the rest of the string. The problem is that the line spacing between the first and second line is much larger than the line spacing between subsequent lines due to the increased size of the first word....

how do i disable edit(adding or removing text on to it ) in text view

hi ,this is lak i am having problem with my text view,i selected text view to display content and this text should not changed by user.. but my text view is allowing me to edit text on toit how can i disable this one... ...

how can i switch to my text view and again switch to main view when button pressed

1) i have one text view which is subview of my main view and i am having one button on each view to switch between them .. what should i write in my ib action of two buttons... and i appreciate the answers .... 2)i have implemented text view with use of view controller and without view controller any one can suggest which one is better ...

PyGTK: Manually render an existing widget at a given Rectangle? (TextView in a custom CellRenderer)

Hello! I am trying to draw a TextView into the cell of a TreeView. (Why? I would like to have custom tags on text, so they can be clickable and trigger different actions/popup menus depending on where user clicks). I have been trying to write a customized CellRenderer for this purpose, but so far I failed because I find it extremely di...

Is there any character limit in android textview?

I'm trying to enter more than 2000 - 3000 characters in an android TextView it does not display anything. any one guide is there character limit on android textview or what ? ...

[Android] Images in TextView

1) How would one go about altering/extending TextView to render inline images? It seems that setText(Html.fromHtml(...image tags...)) might actually allow image insertion if set up correctly, but I haven't tried myself. Even if, I would still need fine grained control over the image drawing (my final goal is to display inline animated s...

how to i edit contents of TextViews in Android Dialogs?

i want to display a dialog in my android application where certain TextViews in the layout need to have content set during runtime. while showing the dialog itself is no problem at all, accessing the TextViews via TextView.setText(String) crashes the application. this is what i got so far: dialog = new Dialog(this); dialog.setContent...

TextView on android only shows two lines worth of text in either orientation

if the text is longer than the the width the textview, after the second line, it cuts it and adds "..." to the end of it. It doesnt matter the orientation, it will just display more text until the end of the second line, here is the textview XML: <TextView android:id="@+id/ContentViewerDescription" android:layout_width="...

Setting textview text from a string resource held in an array problem

This should be simple, but driving my crazy. I have the following in my layout, not problems. <TextView android:id="@+id/birdinfo" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:textColor="#00009c" android:text="The Robin is a popular bird" /> Then I have these arrays which are se...

what would be the best way to have an Android homescreen widget alternate between textviews?

I'm trying to create a homescreen Android widget and have it alternate between two different textviews I would send to it. Is this possible? ...

table view is not responding to user taps after i added navigation tabbar to my main view

i am having navigation controller application my root view controller had table view ,i added a tabbar controller to my main.xib file how can i decrease size of my rootcontroller view so that i can add tab bar below to that ...

Objective-C: How to implement TextView orphan control

I'm working on an iPad app that does a simple display of text similar to iBooks. I would like to display ONLY full paragraphs on each screen (ie, no orphan/widows on a page). Similar to iBooks, I want to allow the user to change the font and font size and continue to keep all lines in paragraphs together. The user will be able to page...

Android textview outline text

Is there a simple way to have text be able to have a black outline? I have textviews that will be different colors, but some of the colors don't show up on my background so well, so I was wondering if there's an easy way to get a black outline or something else that will do the job? I'd prefer not to have to create a custom view and make...