Hi, If i understood your requirement correctly then your problem can be resolved by 'AndroidsFortune' application's source code. The guys has done wonderful job by having both horizontal and vertical scrolling for the TextView.
Hope it helps you. Regards, Abhishek On Apr 2, 2:13 am, andrej sarkic <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I want to have a textview (like a console or output window), which > scrolls. I saw on this list that the TextView will not scroll on its > own unless I wrap it in a ScrollView. So I did that and it worked. The > problem is, it seemed no matter what I did I could not get the > TextView to be higher than one line. This was only when it was > embedded in the ScrollView, and didn't seem to change whatever I set > the TexView's layout_height to. Here is my layout: > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> > <LinearLayout > xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"; > android:layout_height="fill_parent" > android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:orientation="vertical"> > > <ScrollView android:id="@+id/ScrollView02" > android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="1.0dp" > android:layout_weight="1.0"> > > <TextView android:id="@+id/TextView01" > android:layout_width="fill_parent" > android:layout_height="fill_parent"></TextView> > </ScrollView> > </LinearLayout> > > Adding android:text="some text" android:minHeight="50dp" finally did > the trick! But, I would still like to understand why I had to do this. > It seemed like setting layout_height to "fill_parent" should be > enough, shouldn't it? > > What am I missing here? > > Thanks, > Andrej -- 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 To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
