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erdomester
erdomester

Reputation: 11829

Android using ellipsize on widget text

I created a widget with text. I want to add ... to the end of the text where there is not enough place to show the whole text. I used android:ellipsize="end" but only the first two rows are visible.

This is the widget layout:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="64dip"
    android:layout_height="72dip"
    android:layout_gravity="center"
    android:id="@+id/widgetlayout">

    <ImageView android:id="@+id/ImageView01"
     android:layout_width="72dip" 
     android:layout_height="72dip"
     android:scaleType="fitXY">
    </ImageView>

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/tvConfigInput"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:gravity="left"
        android:textColor="#FFFFFF"
        android:layout_margin="2dip"    
        android:ellipsize="end"
        android:textSize="12dip" />

</RelativeLayout>

The first image is with the ellipsize effect. The second one is without it. You can see there is enough place to show more text.

enter image description here I tried out in a 1x2 widget also, same happens

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Thanks to Devunwired, I am now trying with this, but nothing has changed (I guess I am doing sg wrong)

RemoteViews views = new RemoteViews(c.getPackageName(), R.layout.widget_layout);

        TextPaint paint = new TextPaint(); 
        final float densityMultiplier = this.getResources().getDisplayMetrics().density;
        final float scaledPx = 20 * densityMultiplier;
        paint.setTextSize(scaledPx);
        final float size = paint.measureText(widgettext);  
        Log.i("size", size + "");  //1716 e.g

        while (widgettext != TextUtils.ellipsize(widgettext, paint, (float)GetDipsFromPixel(72),  TextUtils.TruncateAt.END)) { 
            paint.setTextSize(paint.getTextSize() - 1);
        }

        views.setTextViewText(R.id.tvConfigInput, widgettext);
        views.setTextColor(R.id.tvConfigInput, loadedtextcolor);

        views.setFloat(R.id.tvConfigInput, "setTextSize", int_widgetfontsize);

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1055

Answers (1)

devunwired
devunwired

Reputation: 63303

You've found one of my favorite framework bugs: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2254

Feel free to star it and hope that we see a fix for this soon. The comments within also point to a number of solutions you can implement with a custom view to overcome the problem. You can also manually place the ellipsis using a combination of Paint.measureText() and TextUtils.ellipsize()

HTH

Upvotes: 2

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