Oh, and yes I know using a maxWidth would do it, but I don't want to calculate the number of pixels and the app will be used on many devices of varying screen densities.
For example though, this does do the trick on my Galaxy S: android:maxWidth="250px" On Nov 3, 5:31 pm, darrinps <[email protected]> wrote: > I have two TextViews. One to the left of the other. The first can hold > a very long name and the other is pretty much fixed in width. > > If the name is very long I want it to wrap to the next line but I > cannot seem to get it to do the wrapping. It's always the second > TextView that wraps. > > I've tried about everything I could find on the Internet as a > suggestion and nothing works. Any ideas? > > Here is the stripped down version. I removed all of the things I tried > to get it to wrap correctly. > > Thanks! > > <LinearLayout > android:id="@+id/layout_passport_name" > android:background="#e3e9f2" > android:orientation="horizontal" > android:layout_width="fill_parent" > android:layout_height="wrap_content"> > > <TextView > android:id="@+id/name_on_passport" > android:text="Johnneylongname Withalonglastnametoo" > android:textColor="#022750" > android:textStyle="bold" > android:ellipsize="none" > android:scrollHorizontally="false" > android:layout_centerVertical="true" > android:layout_alignParentLeft="true" > android:layout_width="wrap_content" > android:layout_height="wrap_content" > /> > > <TextView > android:id="@+id/some_id" > android:text="Member number 1 of 3" > android:textColor="#022750" > android:textStyle="bold" > android:ellipsize="none" > android:scrollHorizontally="false" > android:paddingLeft="10px" > android:layout_gravity="right|center_vertical" > android:layout_alignParentRight="true" > android:layout_width="wrap_content" > android:layout_height="wrap_content" > /> > > </LinearLayout> -- 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
