Thanks for the reply, actually after reading your response I realised what the problem was, I was passing the resource ID, not the colour.
I fixed it by: tvImagesTitle.setTextColor( getResources().getColor(R.color.blue) ); On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Fred Niggle <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello Simon, > > For a button in a recent project I used: > How to set a button as transparent and blue: > > button1.setBackgroundColor(Color.argb(125, 0, 0, 255)); > > the 1st set of digits (125) is the translucency. > > Did you try dropping the '#' off your code in xml before asking? > Fred. > > > On 19/06/2011, Simon Platten <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am adding some views to a linear layout in code, I have set the colour > of > > the text view as follows: > > > > TextView tvImagesTitle = new TextView(this); > > tvImagesTitle.setTextColor(R.color.blue); > > tvImagesTitle.setText("Some text"); > > m_llImages.addView( tvImagesTitle ); > > > > However the text comes out grey, the value of the blue resource is: > > > > <color name="blue">#ff0000ff</color> > > > > > > Any ideas? > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Sy > > > > -- > > 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 > > -- > 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 -- Regards, Sy -- 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
