Text Display Jumping Left-Right due to character width difference

Question

I am using an EditText to display text received from a serial port which is updated 10 times a second, it works fine but one of the lines of text has a character that alternates beyween a digit and a dash (-). Becuase the dash is narrower than the digit the rest of the line of text after this character jumps right-left as the digit and dash alternate.

How can I prevent this so either the digit or dash could be displayed without the rest of the line jumping?

TIA

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 02 '11 at 14:05

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You should use monospace font. You can either change it with the visual designer or by code:

EditText1.Typeface = Typeface.MONOSPACE

Visual designer:

answered Oct 02 '11 at 14:05

Erel

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Thanks, easy when you know how. Is it possible to have different font sizes on different lines with the same EditText? – Andrew Smith Oct 02 '11 at 14:25
You can probably do it with the RichString library: [link](http://www.basic4ppc.com/android/help/richstring.html) Note that you should accept the answer to mark it as the correct answer. – Erel Oct 02 '11 at 14:29

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 02 '11 at 13:52

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You then should probably use monospace font:

<EditText android:typeface="monospace" [rest of attributes] />

answered Oct 02 '11 at 13:52

Aleks G

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Text Display Jumping Left-Right due to character width difference

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