Ha that's the same exact control I'm looking to create, multiline and if it spills over three vertical lines, replace the last few characters with an ellipsis and "More" text - the user clicks that and the textview expands to full height.
I have written this kind of control for blackberry but was hoping there'd be something already premade in android. I'll check out the source of TextView as a starting point. Thanks for your help and confirming this. On Oct 21, 12:31 pm, "nEx.Software" <[email protected]> wrote: > I have ellipsize working for multiline text. I had to write my own > ellipsize function to do it. I wanted to replace the "..." with > "...Read More" so my implementation is highly customized. A tip, you > can clone the ellipsize function from the AOSP then use it directly. > The problem appears to be not in the ellipsize code itself but in > somewhere in how the TextView tells its size to the ellipsize > function. I have not tracked down exactly where this is happening and > since I don't have a build environment setup for AOSP, it would be > hard for me to test it anyway. I should revisit my implementation and > see if I can clean it up for more generic use. > > On Oct 21, 8:30 am, Mark Wyszomierski <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Ok, that confirms what I'm seeing. I wonder if there really is a way > > to get the ellipsis to work for multiline text. If not, I will have to > > write a widget for it unfortunately! > > > Thanks > > > On Oct 20, 12:37 pm, Wouter <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Yes I have searched this also before and this also works for single > > > line text so i think you have to use it this way.. > > > > Wouter > > > > On Oct 20, 6:23 pm, MarkWyszomierski<[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi Wouter, > > > > > Yes that does work for single line text, but not for multiline - > > > > checking from other posts here it seems like the ellipsis does not > > > > handle multiline text correctly? > > > > > Thanks > > > > > On Oct 20, 12:06 pm, Wouter <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > I use this in my layout xml file: > > > > > > android:ellipsize="end" > > > > > android:singleLine="true" > > > > > > And this works perfectly for text on 1 line.. > > > > > > On Oct 20, 5:42 pm, MarkWyszomierski<[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > I have a normal TextView which has multiple lines. I set its max > > > > > > number of lines to 3. I'd like it to show an ellipsis at the end if > > > > > > the text is too long: > > > > > > > TextView tv = new TextView(context); > > > > > > tv.setLines(tv); > > > > > > tv.setText("some really long text..."); > > > > > > > I tried the set ellipsis calls but it doesn't seem to do anything - > > > > > > the text appears the same way. How do we get this to work? > > > > > > > Thanks --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
