Android Question How to Ellipsize edittext

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Do you really want to ellipsize the text in an EditText where the user is supposed to enter text ?

Hi Klaus

I am getting this error when I am using with edittext as follows


edt(i).Text = cursor2.GetString2(i)
GC.setEllipsize(edt(i),"MARQUEE")
Public Sub SetEllipsize(TextView As EditText, Mode As String)
Dim r As Reflector
r.Target = TextView
r.RunMethod2("setSingleLine", True, "java.lang.boolean")
r.RunMethod2("setEllipsize", Mode, "android.text.TextUtils$TruncateAt")
r.RunMethod2("setSelected", True, "java.lang.boolean")
End Sub
gc_setellipsize (B4A line: 936)

r.RunMethod2("setEllipsize", Mode, "android.text.

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: EditText cannot use the ellipsize mode TextUtils.TruncateAt.MARQUEE

at android.widget.EditText.setEllipsize(EditText.java:114)

at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)

at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:515)

at anywheresoftware.b4a.agraham.reflection.Reflection.runmethod(Reflection.java:216)

at anywheresoftware.b4a.agraham.reflection.Reflection.RunMethod2(Reflection.java:817)

at om.MasterEntry.gc._setellipsize(gc.java:2055)

at om.MasterEntry.masterentry3._showentry(masterentry3.java:7312)

at om.MasterEntry.masterentry3._activity_resume(masterentry3.java:1491)

at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)

at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:515)

at anywheresoftware.b4a.BA.raiseEvent2(BA.java:169)

at anywheresoftware.b4a.BA.raiseEvent(BA.java:153)

at om.MasterEntry.masterentry3.afterFirstLayout(masterentry3.java:108)

at om.MasterEntry.masterentry3.access$000(masterentry3.java:17)

at om.MasterEntry.masterentry3$WaitForLayout.run(masterentry3.java:80)

at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:733)

at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95)

at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:136)

at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5021)

at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)

at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:515)

at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:827)

at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:643)

at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

Pl. advise

regards

Change MARQUEE to END.

After Changing Marquee to End

Text is not scrolling in the EditText.
I am fetching Data and text is long so I need scrolling.

regards

It only works in single line mode. Do you need the text to be editable? If not then you should use CustomListView.AddText.

Yes , its a simple editText(Default mode is single line). Its a entry/update program and I am uploading the values from SQlight DB. I can't use customListview at this point of code.
Some of values are bigger than edittext width, i need a solution for this so that user can see the full value.

regards

The text will not be scrollable if you use one of the truncating modes. The text is truncated.

ok I understand
thanks for tips
regards