How to override Android edittext double-touch selection bounds

Question

When I double-touch (or long press) on the edittext widget it selects some text. The bounds of the selection seem to stop at whitespace. I would like to change this behaviour to stop at punctuation. How would I achieve this?

i don't understand ur question. can u specify what u needed. — Nithinlal, Jul 18 '14 at 05:42
try some thing like this http://stackoverflow.com/a/20988922 — Sree, Jul 18 '14 at 05:43
Looking over the source code it looks like its handled by the WordIterator. As best as I can tell the default one should be stopping at punctuation, but it doesn't seem to for me. — RadAd, Jul 22 '14 at 01:35

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 18 '14 at 06:10

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You can make use of the following:

txtInput.setOnLongClickListener(new OnLongClickListener() {

            @Override
            public boolean onLongClick(View v) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                int index = txtInput.getText().toString().indexOf("!");
                if(index!=-1){
                txtInput.setSelection(0, index);
                }
                return true;
            }
        });

edited Jul 18 '14 at 06:10

LMK

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answered Jul 18 '14 at 05:54

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This is partially useful. How do you know where the long press occurs? It would be needed to work which subset of the selection to use. Also, this doesn't address the double tap case. – RadAd Jul 21 '14 at 05:49

How to override Android edittext double-touch selection bounds

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