Android: Content goes off screen - android

He is an example of my TextView, which goes off the right side of the screen. I tried setting paddings and stuff, but nothing seemed to work. Any ideas? Here is my hierarchy,
ScrollView,TableLayout
<TableRow>
<TextView
android:layout_column="1"
android:id="#+id/text_price"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:inputType="textCapCharacters"
android:padding="2dip"
android:text="#string/game_price"
/>
<EditText
android:id="#+id/gameprice"
android:inputType="textCapCharacters"
android:gravity="right"
android:minWidth="120dip"
/>
</TableRow>

Try setting the width of the textview to wrap_content, remove the layout_column=1 (not necessary, afaik), and set the height and width of the edittext to wrap_content.
Anyway it's weird to have a textview filling the screen and an edittext to its right with a width of at least 120dip. If you stick to a TableLayout maybe you'll have to play with the weights of the elements, tho I'm not too sure of how this works in a tableLayout. To fill the width of the screen, define that in the TableLayout with fill_parent.
If what you want is a TextView taking all the space left by the EditText placed to the right, a RelativeLayout would do the work
<RelativeLayout>
<EditText
android:id="#+id/gameprice"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:inputType="textCapCharacters"
android:gravity="right"
android:minWidth="120dip"/>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/text_price"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:inputType="textCapCharacters"
android:padding="2dip"
android:text="#string/game_price"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#id/gameprice"/>
</RelativeLayout>
You'll need to play with the placement of the EditText, the TextView will stick to its left.

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How can I maximize the space my control occupies while maintaining horizontal order?

I have the following linear layout:
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="50dp"
android:id="#+id/SearchBox">
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium"
android:text="Search: "
android:id="#+id/SearchText"/>
<EditText
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_le="#+id/SearchBox"
/>
<Button
style="?android:attr/buttonStyleSmall"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Search"
android:id="#+id/SearchButton"/>
</LinearLayout>
As you can see, the EditText is between the view and the button. Is there any property I can set that makes the edit text fill the space between the other two controls? (Which have a fixed size, based on their static content).
Setting the Edit Text's layout width to "Fill_parent" pushes off the button (since there's no more room in the parent).
Ideally, I guess the thing to do would be to add the edit text last, specify that it should be between the other two controls, and then set it to fill width.
But I'm not sure how to do that. Any help?
use property android:weight='1' on the EditText once you have fixed the widths of the other views

Automatic horizontal scroll in textview with layout_weight

I have been looking at other threads but I couldn't find an answer so here comes my question:
Is it possible to create a automatically horizontal scrolling TextView with a button to the right of it using layout_weight?
"My incredibly long search text here" "The button"
I have tried to make a scrollable textview with "fill_parent" instead of 0dp and layout_weight as well but then the entire text takes up the "row" (obviously since it is fill_parent) and the button is not shown AND the text didn't scroll horizontally even then when I ran it in the android virtual device.
Edit: forgot to write how I tried to make the scrollable textview
<TextView
android:singleLine="true"
android:scrollHorizontally="true"
android:ellipsize="marquee"
android:marqueeRepeatLimit="marquee_forever"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/searchResult"
android:focusable="true"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"/>
Of course it's possible. Something like this will do:
<LinearLayout
android:layout_widht="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="horizontal">
<TextView
android:layout_width="0px"
android:layout_weight="7"
.../>
<Button
android:layout_width="0px"
android:layout_weight="3"
... />
</LinearLayout>
Key here is make the width zero so that there's all horizontal space remaining when the weight mechanism assigns all remaining space to linear layout components in relation to their layout weight.

LinearLayout: how to place a view below/right of a fill_parent view?

I want to have a TextView on the left that fills space, plus a right-justified TextView on the right. I've tried fiddling with gravity, layout_gravity, and making the second TextView fill_parent also, but the second TextView always ends up invisible as long as the first one is fill_parent. I notice that the same problem occurs if the LinearLayout is vertical. What to do?
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="fill_horizontal"
android:orientation="horizontal" >
<TextView
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Left Side"/>
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Right side"
android:background="#ff606060"/>
</LinearLayout>
Target: Android 2.2
I think this is what you want.
You can also add singleLine (and ellipsize) to the left view if you don't want it to wrap text.
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<TextView
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Left Side"
android:layout_weight="1"
/>
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Right side"
/>
</LinearLayout>
use layout_weight and set layout_width to 0dp on both your TextView.
So weight set to 3 on the first TextView, then 1 on the second for example/
Why not use a RelativeLayout?
Set the right-justified TextView to layout_alignParentRight, then set the other one that fills the space to layout_alignParentLeft and layout_toLeftOf the right-justified TextView

Android TextView and Button side-by-side, ellipsize left TextView

I have a left-aligned TextView and a right-aligned button side-by-side. I want the button to take up as much space as it needs on the right (depending on the text that goes in it) and the left text to fill as much as it can and ellipsize on any overflow.
|Long title that may or may not ellipsi... <Button with text>|
I've read and tried lots of other posts that seem to have similar problems, none of which have worked for me. I've tried both using a LinearLayout with weights as well as a RelativeLayout with layout_toLeftOf assigned, none of which is resulting in what I need.
This is my LinearLayout code (with unnecessary parts taken out) where I give the left TextView a layout_weight of 1 and the button a layout_weight of 0. This should give the right-side button all the space it needs and give the TextView the rest, but instead the left title stops showing up and the right button gets smushed to the side and cut off. I've tried replacing the widths of both the Text and button to 0dip as I've seen suggested, which doesn't change anything.
<LinearLayout
android:layout_height="#dimen/title_bar_height"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:orientation="horizontal">
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:ellipsize="end"
android:layout_gravity="left|center_vertical"
android:gravity="left|center_vertical"
android:textSize="22sp"
android:lines="1"/>
<include layout="#layout/action_buttons"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="0"/>
</LinearLayout>
Replacing the layout_weight of the TextView with 0 actually allows the right-side button to properly fit on the screen fully, but the left text still does not show up. If I have both layout_weights set to 0 for the TextView and button and I then change the TextView's width from 0dip to wrap_content, everything shows up but the button instead is squished to fill the remaining space (and the text inside is truncated).
Here is my attempt with a RelativeLayout:
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_height="#dimen/title_bar_height"
android:layout_width="wrap_content">
<include layout="#layout/action_buttons"/>
<TextView
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#layout/action_buttons"
android:gravity="center_vertical"
android:scaleType="center"
android:textSize="22sp"
android:ellipsize="end"
android:lines="1"/>
</RelativeLayout>
Everything aligns fine and shows up, except that the left TextView (when it's too long) overlaps and appears on top of the button rather than truncating and ellipsizing. Shouldn't android:layout_toLeftOf"#layout/action_buttons" specify that the TextView should stay to the left boundary of the button?
I've tried seemingly everything I can find on this site related to this issue, and I still can't get a solution. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
This will do the trick for you:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="horizontal" >
<TextView
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="left|center_vertical"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:ellipsize="end"
android:gravity="left|center_vertical"
android:singleLine="true"
android:text="Some really long textttttttttt tooooooooooo make the ellipsize work in the preview"
android:textSize="22sp" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/button"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Button Text" />
</LinearLayout>
Here's what it looks like when run:
And again with a button with more text:

Horizontal line padding

I'm trying to add a horizontal line between two EditText widgets, but strangely the line has no padding at the bottom, so it appears "glued" to the widget that is below it.
This is my code (in the layout.xml, inside a LinearLayout with vertical orientation):
<EditText android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:capitalize="sentences"
android:singleLine="true"
android:maxLength="30" />
<View android:background="#FF00FF00"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="1dip" />
<EditText android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:paddingTop="10dp"
android:scrollbars="vertical"
android:capitalize="none"
android:autoLink="all"
android:maxLines="8" />
And this is how it looks like:
I'd like to add some padding below the line. I tried with android:paddingBottom in the View widget, and with android:paddingTop in the below EditText widget, but the result is the same (it's ignored).
Instead of using padding use margin.
Use the following property in xml:
android:layout_marginTop="5dip"
android:layout_marginBottom="5dip"
Hope this will solve your problem...:)
Use a margin instead. Padding is the area around the content inside a View. If you give padding to an EditText for instance, you increase the size of the box (the area around the text), but don't give any space around it.

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