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Eselfar
Eselfar

Reputation: 3869

InputType doesn't work when text is set with setText

I have set android:inputType="text|textCapWords" to my EditText. When I type something in the field, the first letter is correctly capitalised, but if I set a full capitalised (or full lowercase) text using the setText() method, the text remains fully capitalised (or in lowercase).

How can I use setText for the text to comply with the input type?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 633

Answers (3)

Khoirul Anwar
Khoirul Anwar

Reputation: 1

Use this 

EditText.getText().clear(); 
EditText.getText().append("test");

rather than 

EditText.setText("test");

so that the text that has been set follows the input type behavior

Upvotes: 0

Gotiasits
Gotiasits

Reputation: 1175

You can check for your editText Type constants, and add simple .toUpperCase() to the text you're adding, like this:

if(mEditText.getInputType() ==  TYPE_TEXT_FLAG_CAP_CHARACTERS+ TYPE_CLASS_TEXT)
        mEditText.setText("Some text".toUpperCase());
    else
        mEditText.setText("some text");

More for input types constants can be found here

Upvotes: 0

Rahul Sharma
Rahul Sharma

Reputation: 2893

As @Amarok suggests

This is expected behavior. You have to format the text yourself before using the setText() method

But if you want to format your text just like android:inputType="text|textCapWords you can use the following method:

public static String modifiedLowerCase(String str){
        String[] strArray = str.split(" ");
        StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
        for (String s : strArray) {
            String cap = s.substring(0, 1).toUpperCase() + s.substring(1).toLowerCase();
            builder.append(cap + " ");
        }
        return builder.toString();
    }

and use it like

textView.setText(modifiedLowerCase("hEllo worLd"));

It will convert it like :

Hello World

Upvotes: 1

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