I am passing a String from one activity to another, and placing it into an EditText box.
My problem is, I am placing the string "S" into the EditText box, but the cursor is BEHIND the character, instead of in FRONT of it, so the user has to hit the arrow to move the cursor so they can continue typing.
Is there a setting I need to adjust so the cursor stays in FRONT of the letter?
Try this for the edit text.
edittext.setSelection(str.length());
To set the cursor you can call:
editText.setSelection(positionOfCursor);
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I have a TextView and number buttons to type inside the TextView like a calculator.
I need to keep the cursor to stay in its place when I am typing the numbers and NOT to move.
For example lets say this is the cursor "[" , so this is what's happening now:
[12345
What I want when I am typing the numbers
12345[
This numbers are just an example, what is important for me is the cursor stay at the right and not to move.
Update:
[12345 the first number what I typed is 5 and the last one is 1.
For EditText you can change the cursor for the view. If you are currently manipulating the cursor position in your TextView, then you can do something similar in the code if need be. There might be an automated way to do so, but I had thought setting the gravity as others had mentioned would do the trick.
EditText editText = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.calculatorEditTextView);
editText.setSelection(editText.getText().length());
I am making a text editor in android, I am using a multi-line edit text that holds all the text and all the editing is done on the same edit text.
I have one issue:
When i started working on the application, the cursor kept on the first position of the edit text. every time i use to enter text, the cursor did not move, rather the text kept on adding.
then i used this short piece of code to bring the cursor at the end of the edittext
edittext.setSelection(edittext.getText().length());
Now the problem is that i am unable to edit any text that has already been written in the edittext, as when i ever i try to edit it, the cursor jumps to the last position.
What i want is that my cursor should move to the position where i want to add or edit text. it is not allowing me to do that right now.
Additional things:
I am using a text watcher and all of the functionalities are being implemented in the text watcher. secondly i am using post function in onResume of my activity to implement certain functionalities.
use append method for this, it will show the cursor at the last :
etEditText.append("Text here");
I have a multiline edittext field. I can write everything but when I try to go back and put the cursor on a given position I am not able to do it. Instead the cursor goes to the start of the text and never moves from there again.
NOTE; My text is only one long 'word'. A sequence of HEX characters.
Thanks in advance,
I have a screen which have editText and a button, now when we click on the button it will fetch the Text from another screen and set to the editText.
The problem is when the text has been set to edittext cursor position is coming at last. I want that cursor position should appear from start.
Any Idea??
Thanks.
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editText.requestFocus();
editText.setSelection(0);
I have created one activity i.e loginpage. it contains some edit textboxes, when I run the application the cursor is defaultly going to last edit text field. My requirement is cursor should be defaultly in first edit text field.
EditText yourEdittext1=(EditText)findview...();
EditText yourEdittext2=(EditText)findview...();
yourEdittext1.requestFocus();