I am working on softkeyboard.
My issues are below.
How to get current position of cursor in text(EditText).
How to get total length of value in text(EditText).
If EditText is multi-line then get current line of cursor in text(EditText).
If you want see my code then see this softkeyboard's link. I am following this code.
You should put textwatcher event in edittext this is the event is execute when user type a character (any in put by key board).
In your case when user type a single character in edittext you got hole text then get length of this text it is your cursor position and total length of value in text.
according to your third question you have all the text written in edit text using above method then you convert all the text in ascii value then compare every character with 13(it is the ascii value of enter in keyboard )and increase counter of line when it condition true using this you find no of line in edit text. i am giving a example for you how to put text watcher in edittext you change in this code and convert it according to your condition.
ed.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {
public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
}
public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count,
int after) {
}
public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before,
int count) {
textlength = ed.getText().length();
);
}
});
Related
In my app, I want the users to give their answers in the form of text through edit text. So for the correct answer I want the letters to turn green (or red for incorrect) on the fly while typing.
For example, if the answer is DOG, I want the the text to turn green if the user types DOG dynamically. Even if the the first letter he types is D then I want the text color to be green. Only when the user's input text is not correct do I want it to be red. The text color should change on the fly while typing.
Create EditText and call addTextChangedListener for it supplying custom TextWatcher where you mostly need to override its onTextChanged.
In this method change your text color according to your logic.
Snapshot :
mEditBox = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.my_edit_box_id);
mEditBox.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {
#Override
public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before,
int count) {
String currentText = mEditBox.getText().toString();
// highligt correct answer in green
if ("DOG".startsWith(currentText)) { // user starts typing "DOG"
mEditBox.setTextColor(Color.GREEN);
} else {
mEditBox.setTextColor(Color.RED); // incorrect input
}
}
#Override
public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count,
int after) {
}
#Override
public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
}
});
I have an application where user inputs text into EditText field. After user clicks OK (in keyboard input mode), a correct value is in the EditText (lets say "Smile").
if (answers.get(counter).getText().equals(opponentAnswers.get(counter)))
But this if statement fails, because the same EditText has the values that were suggested by T9 option, when user was inputing his answer (for example values of EditText would be "Smile Smiling Smiled"), while it should only have a value "Smile".
Any ideas how to solve this issue?
That's really weird. These are kind of guesses, but this is what I'd try next if I were you:
A. Instead of doing an equals against getText(), try doing a toString on getText(), so:
if (answers.get(counter).getText().toString().equals(opponentAnswers.get(counter)))
B. If that doesn't work then you could try adding a TextWatcher using addTextChangedListener on the EditText, and getting the value from that. Calling toString() on the editable returned in afterTextChanged might give you the value you want.
private class SearchTextWatcher implements TextWatcher {
#Override
public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count,
int after) {
}
#Override
public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before,
int count) {
}
#Override
public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
//Get the text the user sees
String textShownToUser = s.toString();
}
}
Hope this helps! Best of luck!
I have 3 widgets on my screen, Text View, Edit Text and a Button. What ever I insert in my edit text, when I click the button, the text view gets the string from the edit text. Now, what I want to do is that, if I have already inserted the character "\" or "," or what ever character I want, it will not be inputted anymore. It's like, you can only put that character once in the edit text. Do you guys have any idea about it?
Well what I am thinking is that, I have to search from the edit view then validate it. But I don't know what code to use. Could somebody please help me? Thank you!
Use Android TextWatcher on EditText.
There are delegates which returns the charsequence that is entered
onTextChanged
afterTextChanged
beforeTextChanged
Fill the entered character in set everytime. If size is not incrementing that means a duplicate.
then avoid adding of that character in edittext
I think you need to add a TextChangedListener to your editText.
et.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {
#Override
public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before,
int count) {
}
#Override
public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count,
int after) {
}
#Override
public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
}
});
I need to control pressed buttons, before they goes to my EditText widget. It's should work like filter.
For example: I need that user could fill EditText only with digits 1,2,3,4,5 other symbols must be ignored. So the part of buttons on virtual keyboard should be disabled or I need to catch last pressed symbol, analyze it and disable for EditText.
Who knows the way how to solve this problem?
Thanks..
statusEdt.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher(){
public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {}
public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) {}
public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {
//do stuff
charTxt.setText(statusEdt.getText().length() + "/140");
}
});
I used this TextChangedListener(TextWatcher) to keep a count of how many characters had been typed into an EditText for a Twitter client I made. You could probably use a listener like this. You'll want to override beforeTextChanged or onTextChanged. These methods will pass you whatever CharSequence has been typed. You can check what was typed in and if it is not valid input you can remove it by calling setText() and passing in whatever has been typed so far minus the invalid characters.
What you probably need is an InputFilter.
For example to allow only digits, sign and decimal point:
editText.setFilters(DigistKeyListener.getInstance(true, true));
I have three editboxes which has retrict to enter only one numeric digit on each box.when i enter the value of first box the focus should be moved from 1st box to 2nd.After entering value to 2nd box.,its focus should automatically moved to 2nd to 3rd like that i need to do.Could anybody help me regarding this?
You can use requestFocus() API to shift the focus from the code,
Keep listening for the text, using textWatcher, once specified limit is reached, call EditTextreference.requestFocus() to shift the focus.
This code moves focus from one EditText to another when EditText length greater than 1.
EditText et1,et2;
et1 = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.id1);
et2 = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.id2);
et1.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher()
{
public void afterTextChanged(Editable s)
{
// Abstract Method of TextWatcher Interface.
}
public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s,
int start, int count, int after)
{
// Abstract Method of TextWatcher Interface.
}
public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s,
int start, int before, int count)
{
Integer textlength = et1.getText().length();
if(textlength>=1){ //If text length greater than 1 move to next EditText
et2.requestFocus();
}
}
});