On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:32 PM, Studio LFP <studio....@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't mean to shift gears here on you, but you are putting these > EditTexts in a ListView and you may not even need the ListView. > > A ListView is usually not edited in place and actually are very friendly > when you try to. > Your statements seem contradictory. You say a list view is not edited in place. Then you say a list view is very friendly when you try to edit it in place? > > Are you planning on having a lot of these edit boxes? > Yes, in each row. On average there may only be a dozen or two or less per screen. > > It might be better just to use a LinearLayout wrapped in a ScrollView and > dynamically add EditText to the LinearLayout assigning different IDs as you > go. That way you can access those at any time and you won't have to fight > with the ListView. > Yes, in the end overriding getView was giving me lots of problems so I dumped the listview altogether and used inflation of XML rows in a linearlayout in a scrollview in a linearlayout. This may be inefficient but I would have had to keep an array of rows around anyways even if I implemented a listview with an adapter... what is not clear right now is what advantages/disadvantages a listview with adapter may have had compared to views added to a plain linearlayout. > I know people don't like to share ideas for programs, but can you explain a > little more why you would have so many edit in place boxes that you need a > ListView? > Since I don't want my users to have to go through a separate screen to input information which could be edited in place, I do it right there. Just like with SQL queries, some returned rows have unique fields, and some do not, hence the need to update textedits concurrently. Regards, John Goche -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
