Text view or something to hold and display large amounts of text

Use CustomListView with a single item:
[Class] CustomListView - A flexible list based on ScrollView

You could also have a look here: Best view (control) for showing a large text file
And here : Real newb question about how to display a block of scrollable text

Best regards.

CustomListview

Erel said:

Use CustomListView with a single item:
[Class] CustomListView - A flexible list based on ScrollView

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The customlistview is excellent. I really like it. However, it seems to default to using whatever layout is loaded at the time inside the activity_create sub.

So, if you have a main layout that is a tabhost it runs into problems since the tabhost loads all the other layouts... basically it draws the customlistview on the activity panel behind the tabhost. i.e. the customlistview has activity or something like that as it's parent instead of one of the layouts on the tabhost.

So, trying to figure out how to tell customlistview which layout to use so that it appears on the correct layout for a specific tab on the tabhost. Is there anyway to pass customlistview the name of the layout to use?

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Ok I got customlistview to work with a tabhost by moving the statements for the customlistview to after the tabhost1.addtab() statemments;

TabHost1.AddTab("Radio Show","layoutradioshow")
TabHost1.AddTab("tab 1","layouttab1")
TabHost1.AddTab("tab 2","layouttab2")
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clv1.Initialize(clv1, "clv1")

Panelcomments.AddView(clv1.AsView, 0, 0, Panelcomments.Width, Panelcomments.Height)

clv1.DefaultTextBackgroundColor = Colors.Gray


Worked like a charm....

Except, not scrolling for some reason... so now got to figure out why not.

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Ok got scrolling working again. So the whole thing works amazingly well. Thanks very very very much for your help.

elitistnot said:

The customlistview is excellent. I really like it. However, it seems to default to using whatever layout is loaded at the time inside the activity_create sub.

So, if you have a main layout that is a tabhost it runs into problems since the tabhost loads all the other layouts... basically it draws the customlistview on the activity panel behind the tabhost. i.e. the customlistview has activity or something like that as it's parent instead of one of the layouts on the tabhost.

So, trying to figure out how to tell customlistview which layout to use so that it appears on the correct layout for a specific tab on the tabhost. Is there anyway to pass customlistview the name of the layout to use?

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CustomListView is a B4A class. That means you have the source code at your disposal and you can make any change to suit your needs. But if you don't want to worry with that, you should use the CheckList class instead. It is compatible with TabHosts. Currently, CustomListView has another problem with TabHost (see below) because a TabHost set its child width and height to -1 ("fill my parent"), so you cannot use sv.Width to get the real width of the ScrollView. CheckList doesn't have this problem.

EDIT:
@Erel:
CustomListView cannot compute correctly minHeight (line #100, InsertAtTextItem) in a TabHost because the lbl.width is negative.