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Corje
Corje

Reputation: 158

Android edittext - enter in "text selection mode"

I have an EditText and I want programatically enter in "text selection mode" indicated by CursorControllers (handles), for example when user long press on EditText.

Any examples or suggestions will highly appreciated.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1065

Answers (2)

codebold
codebold

Reputation: 146

Try 

    editText.onTextContextMenuItem(android.R.id.startSelectingText);

for pre-Honeycomb versions and 

    editText.onTouchEvent(MotionEvent.obtain(/* FakeLongClick */));

for Honeycomb and newer.

I'm not familiar with motion events, but i think this should work if you are able to simulate a long click event...

Upvotes: 2

timonvlad
timonvlad

Reputation: 1056

you can paste some text to EditText by... 

     <EditText
    android:id="@+id/et_link"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:hint="Link" />

"Link" will apeear in EditText window

Upvotes: -1

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