Android Question Adjust height of EditText to Length of Text [SOLVED]

[jnjft]

Hello, I have a grid that shows data from a database in rows of labels. When I click on a label, it turns into an EditText and shows the stored data. The width isn't changed when the label is turned into an EditText.
Now, I'd like to adjust the height of the EditText to the length of the string stored in the cell in the database. The contents is always displayed with a height of 40dip in the label that is shown in the grid, but if I want to edit the contents, I'd like to see the whole contents at once by adjusting the height of the EditText.
I came to the following rather rooky solution, that surely only fits for my setup (10.1'', 160 dpi):

edText.height = sf.Len(CurrentText) / 15 * 30dip + 10dip   'where sf is library string functions

Is there a more elegant and less screen dependent way to do such a thing?

Thanks

 

[Seneca]

Hi.

You can do it using the StringUtils library, with the MeasureMultilineTextHeight member:

Dim nu As StringUtils
 
edText.height = nu.MeasureMultilineTextHeight(edText, edText.Text)

 

[jnjft]

That's what I was looking for - thanks a lot!