something else must be wrong ... textView.setTextColor(0xFFFF00FF) works all day long for me
On Feb 16, 1:12 am, Oldarney <[email protected]> wrote: > The following do not work: > > myDate.setTextColor(0xFFFF00FF); > myDate.setTextColor(Color.argb(250,250,0,250)); > > The reason being is that it wants a reference to the XML object. > Search after search I find that no one in the androidverse has been > able to programatically set a custom color. > > Can anyone get the TextView to change color without pulling the color > from an XML file? given that there are about 16million possible > colors, taking that approach seems unreasonable for my purposes. I > need to give the user the ability to use sliders to precision pick the > color of the text in the TextView. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en

