Android Question EditText red underlining problem

[agraham]

In Android 8.1.0 and later EditText seems to have grown a spelling checker that is on by default causing unwanted underlining of the contents. When I search the Web I see various solutions have been proposed but some seem to have side effects or don't work and others require specifying in the XML layout that B4A doesn't use. Has anyone else seen and overcome this?

 

[jimmyF]

I use this class:

https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/class-input-type-constants.28091/#post-172330

I believe you need to use the SLInpTypeConst.TYPE_TEXT_FLAG_NO_SUGGESTIONS flag

It works well for me.

hth

 

[agraham]

Thanks for the suggestion but that seems to have the unfortunate effect on a multiline TextEdit, as I have also seen reported on the Web, of removing all the new line characters

 

[jimmyF]

Did you try calling:

EditText.SingleLine=False

immediately after setting the flag?
That works for me.

 

[Erel]

This works here:

EditText1.InputType = Bit.Or(0x00080000, 0x00000090)
'TYPE_TEXT_FLAG_NO_SUGGESTIONS | TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_VISIBLE_PASSWORD
EditText1.SingleLine = False

There is a small risk here as different keyboards can treat the "password" flag in different ways.

 

[agraham]

Thanks both. Resetting the multi-line mode was the key. I've used

    edtSource.InputType = 0x00080000 'TYPE_TEXT_FLAG_NO_SUGGESTIONS 
   edtSource.SingleLine = False

as it doesn't seem to need TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_VISIBLE_PASSWORD for my use case.