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Froghut
Froghut

Reputation: 357

TextView with gravity=center and ellipsize=marquee?

I have a TextView with possibly very long text. Also the text should be centered when it is short enough to not cause the marquee effect.

This is the layout xml:

<TextView 
    android:id="@+id/TextView01" 
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:textColor="#000000" 
    android:gravity="center" 
    android:textSize="12dp"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
    android:focusable="false" android:lines="1"
    android:marqueeRepeatLimit="marquee_forever" 
    android:focusableInTouchMode="false" 
    android:ellipsize="marquee" 
    android:scrollHorizontally="true"></TextView>

also, I use findViewById(R.id.TextView01).setSelected(true) to immediately start the marquee.

When the text becomes too long and the marquee effect would kick in it just disappears. Short text is displayed and works.

When I remove the android:gravity="center" the text is visible and marquee works. But short text will no longer be centered in the TextView. What am I doing wrong?

Edit: I'm using Android 2.2.

Edit2: When I replace android:lines="1" with the (deprecated) android:singleLine="true" everything works as expected, but this does not seem to be an ideal solution.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2518

Answers (2)

jiahao
jiahao

Reputation: 3393

Try to change the attribute android:line="1" to android:singleLine="True". It works fine for me.

Upvotes: 2

ernazm
ernazm

Reputation: 9268

Change the android:lines="1" attribute to android:inputType="text". Seems like a bug though.

Upvotes: 0

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