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eugene
eugene

Reputation: 2519

Set the layout weight of a TextView programmatically

I'm trying to dynamically create TableRow objects and add them to a TableLayout. The TableRow objects has 2 items, a TextView and a CheckBox. The TextView items need to have their layout weight set to 1 to push the CheckBox items to the far right.

I can't find documentation on how to programmatically set the layout weight of a TextView item.

Upvotes: 223

Views: 243890

Answers (12)

Gulshan Yadav
Gulshan Yadav

Reputation: 451

After strugling for 4 hours. Finally, This code worked for me.

3 Columns are there in a row.

  TextView serialno = new TextView(UsersActivity.this);
  TextView userId = new TextView(UsersActivity.this);
  TextView name = new TextView(UsersActivity.this);

  serialno.setLayoutParams(new TableRow.LayoutParams(TableRow.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, TableRow.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, 1f));
  userId.setLayoutParams(new TableRow.LayoutParams(TableRow.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, TableRow.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, 1f));
  name.setLayoutParams(new TableRow.LayoutParams(TableRow.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, TableRow.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, 1f));

Upvotes: 2

Ashok Reddy M
Ashok Reddy M

Reputation: 330

This should works to you

LinearLayout.LayoutParams param = new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT);

param.weight=1.0f;

Upvotes: 10

user5967758
user5967758

Reputation: 

TextView txtview = new TextView(v.getContext());
LayoutParams params = new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(0, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, 1f);
txtview.setLayoutParams(params);

1f is denotes as weight=1; you can give 2f or 3f, views will move accoding to the space

Upvotes: 17

anand krish
anand krish

Reputation: 4415

TextView text = new TextView(v.getContext());
text.setLayoutParams(new TableLayout.LayoutParams(LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, 
                                                LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, 1f));

(OR)

TextView tv = new TextView(v.getContext());
LayoutParams params = new TableRow.LayoutParams(0, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, 1f);
tv.setLayoutParams(params);

1f is refered as weight=1; according to your need you can give 2f or 3f, views will move accoding to the space. For making specified distance between views in Linear layout use weightsum for "LinearLayout".

LinearLayout ll_Outer= (LinearLayout ) view.findViewById(R.id.linearview);
LinearLayout llInner = new LinearLayout(this);
            LinearLayout.LayoutParams lp = new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(LinearLayout.LayoutParams.FillParent, LinearLayout.LayoutParams.WrapContent);
            llInner.Orientation = Orientation.Horizontal;
            llInner.WeightSum = 2;
            ll_Outer.AddView(llInner);

Upvotes: 11

sberezin
sberezin

Reputation: 3296

In the earlier answers weight is passed to the constructor of a new SomeLayoutType.LayoutParams object. Still in many cases it's more convenient to use existing objects - it helps to avoid dealing with parameters we are not interested in.

An example:

// Get our View (TextView or anything) object:
View v = findViewById(R.id.our_view); 

// Get params:
LinearLayout.LayoutParams loparams = (LinearLayout.LayoutParams) v.getLayoutParams();

// Set only target params:
loparams.height = 0;
loparams.weight = 1;
v.setLayoutParams(loparams);

Upvotes: 41

kiran boghra
kiran boghra

Reputation: 3822

You can also give weight separately like this ,

LayoutParams lp1 = new LayoutParams(LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT,LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT);

 lp1.weight=1;

Upvotes: 7

Dmitry
Dmitry

Reputation: 2796

There is another way to do this. In case you need to set only one parameter, for example 'height':

TextView textView = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.text_view);
ViewGroup.LayoutParams params = textView.getLayoutParams();
params.height = ViewGroup.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT;
textView.setLayoutParams(params);

Upvotes: 1

Manikandan
Manikandan

Reputation: 894

just set layout params in that layout like

create param variable

 android.widget.LinearLayout.LayoutParams params = new android.widget.LinearLayout.LayoutParams(
            LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, 1f);

1f is weight variable

set your widget or layout like 

 TextView text = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.text);
 text.setLayoutParams(params);

Upvotes: 13

Najem1234
Najem1234

Reputation: 69

This work for me, and I hope it will work for you also

Set the LayoutParams for the parent view first:

myTableLayout.setLayoutParams(new TableLayout.LayoutParams(TableLayout.LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT,
                TableLayout.LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT));

then set for the TextView (child):

 TableLayout.LayoutParams textViewParam = new TableLayout.LayoutParams
     (TableLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT,
     TableLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT,1f);
     //-- set components margins
     textViewParam.setMargins(5, 0, 5,0);
     myTextView.setLayoutParams(textViewParam);

Upvotes: 6

Dorje
Dorje

Reputation: 1177

The answer is that you have to use TableRow.LayoutParams, not LinearLayout.LayoutParams or any other LayoutParams.

TextView tv = new TextView(v.getContext());
LayoutParams params = new TableRow.LayoutParams(0, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, 1f);
tv.setLayoutParams(params);

The different LayoutParams are not interchangeable and if you use the wrong one then nothing seems to happen. The text view's parent is a table row, hence:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TableRow.LayoutParams.html

Upvotes: 102

Macarse
Macarse

Reputation: 93143

You have to use TableLayout.LayoutParams with something like this:

TextView tv = new TextView(v.getContext());
tv.setLayoutParams(new TableLayout.LayoutParams(LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, 1f));

The last parameter is the weight.

Upvotes: 366

joseph_morris
joseph_morris

Reputation: 765

I had a fair amount of difficulty with a solution something very similar to this: trying to have two buttons in a TableRow, with each being half the screen width. For whatever reason, the left button would always be about 70% of the width, and the right button 30%. Calling table_layout.setStretchAllColumns(true) had no effect, nor did setting the button's width to half the screen, nor setting their layout weight.

The solution I ended up with was nesting a LinearLayout in the TableRows, which did take into account the value of the buttons' width.

    TableLayout layout = new TableLayout(this);
    TableRow top_row = new TableRow(this);
    left_button = styleButton();
    right_button = styleButton();
    LinearLayout toprow_layout = new LinearLayout (this);
    toprow_layout.setOrientation(LinearLayout.HORIZONTAL);
    toprow_layout.addView (left_button);
    toprow_layout.addView(right_button);
    toprow.addView(top_layout);
    layout.addView(top_row)

    private Button styleButton() {
            Button btn = new Button (this);
            android.view.Display display = ((android.view.WindowManager)getSystemService(Context.WINDOW_SERVICE)).getDefaultDisplay();      
            btn.setWidth((int)(display.getWidth()/2));    // set width to half
            btn.setHeight(((int)display.getHeight()/6));  // set height to whatevs
            btn.setText("foo");
            return btn;
        }

Upvotes: -1

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