Thanks. I'll try it out!
On Mar 4, 5:29 pm, Marco Nelissen <marc...@android.com> wrote:
> If you want to make sentences, it's still a good idea to put a format
> string in the resource and then use that, since you'll be able to
> correctly localize your app later on.
> To use this with a Cursor and ListView, create a custom Adapter (you
> can probably just derive from SimpleCursorAdapter), and override the
> bindView() method. Then inside that method you can do whatever you
> want to set the text for the views in your list items, including
> gathering data from several columns in the database and combining them
> in to one string.
>
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 3:07 PM, droozen <droozenr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Okay, I see, but I guess I didn't explain my entire issue. I don't
> > know a whole lot about working with the SQLite databases, so right now
> > I'm able to do what was done in the Notepad tutorial, get values from
> > the database and tie them to ids of TextViews to display them. But
> > part of the list I wanted to put together some of the values into a
> > sentence. So I split it up into several text views. I have "Some
> > string blah blah ", then the next TextView holds the value returned.
> > Is there a way I can manipulate the data in each row to put it in my
> > list? I just follow the Notepad tutorial right now. :S
>
> > On Mar 3, 12:30 pm, Marco Nelissen <marc...@android.com> wrote:
> >> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 6:26 AM, droozen <droozenr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> > So, we're supposed to be using our strings.xml to construct most or
> >> > all of our strings, right? I had a situation where I wanted to display
> >> > to the user "Somestringblah blah " + some value. So I put two views
> >> > in a horizontal LinearLayout, with my "Somestringblah blah " (with
> >> > thatspaceon the end, no quotes) in the strings.xml. I reference the
> >> >stringin my first view, then set the value in the second view.
> >> > However, if I set it up like this, thespaceat the end of mystring
> >> > gets trimmed off, which doesn't look pretty. My workaround was not to
> >> > use the strings.xml and place the "Somestringblah blah " (no quotes)
> >> > directly in the android:text parameter of the TextView.
>
> >> > Any idea if there is a better way to do this? Or should I submit a bug
> >> > to Android about this?
>
> >> Instead of breaking up thestringand using two TextViews to display
> >> what is supposed to be a singlestring, you should use a single
> >> TextView and astringin your resource like "Somestringblah blah
> >> %s", and then use the version of Context.getString() that takes
> >> format-arguments.
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