Questions tagged [preference]
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User preferences in Rails with Admin edit and i18n support
We've been working on a ruby project involving users, private messages and any kind of network based related features.
We already have some preferences system that allow users to describe their self. Hair color, wear-style, height, weight, shape,…

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Preference onClick
I made a settings menu for my app but was wondering how would i go about starting a activity when a Preference is clicked in the menu? I want the user to be able to click on a menu bar saying "Change password" and for it to start another activity so…

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ListView in Preference
I've created a custon preference screen for my Android application (Honeycomb), that contains a ListView.
public class XXXPreferences extends Preference
{
@Override
protected View onCreateView(ViewGroup parent)
{
ListView...
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Change text size on the positveButtonText in the EditTextPreference dialog
I cannot figure out how to change the text size on the buttons in the EditTextPreference dialog popup box. I would like all my text throughout my app to be streamlined at 24 sp. This is happening everywhere except this dialog box from the…

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How to access a view inside the layout of a Preference, Android
I have a PreferenceScreen with several PreferenceCategories. Each Preference has a custom layout. This layout contains a TextView. My goal is to get access to this TextView in the Java code to modify its text. Here is my example:
In the…

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Calling setDefaultValue() on a custom Preference class does not set the default value. Why?
I'm extending PreferenceActivity for my settings screen. In this preference activity i have a couple of preferences one of which is custom made. The problem is as follows:
in this custom preference (which extends from ListPreference) i want to be…

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Android ringtone preference - fetch data
i have a ringtone preference. How can i get the selection? I have the following kind-of-code:
if(preferences.getString("ringtonePref", "n/a") != ??)
{
Toast.makeText(TutorialPref.this, "Chosen ringtone: silent",…

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PreferenceActivity as Main Activity
I'm a noob working on my first app that consists of the following:
Main Activity which simply has one CheckBox which upon an onClick starts/stops my service.
Service which runs a method (quick database query) every 60 seconds.
After getting…

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How to change a PreferenceFragment style/theme?
I have a PreferenceFragment and I want to change the background, text color, and a couple other things however I can't find a way to change the fragments style without affecting other fragments in my app.
I tried a solution mentioned at Applying…

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Use a RingtonePreference in PreferenceFragmentCompat?
I am using PreferenceFragmentCompat for my settings activity, and would like to implement a RingtonePreference, which does not come with this type of Preference library.
The only other question on this topic does not have an answer on how to…

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Spyder-IDE how to leave argument inspection open
Lets say I type the following in Spyder-IDE:
min(
Spyder will then automatically open the arguments list of the function min and give me:
Arguments
min(iterable[, key=func])
I find this very helpful but Spyder closes this list after 1.5sec. I…

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How to remove the horizontal line in the bottom in PreferenceScreen?
I am getting one horizontal line in but there is not any horizontal line in the bottom ,I don't know where is wrong
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How to add keywords to search preferences in Eclipse
I added a preference by using this example:
http://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.ui.git/plain/examples/org.eclipse.ui.examples.readmetool/Eclipse%20UI%20Examples%20Readme%20Tool/org/eclipse/ui/examples/readmetool/
For the actual…

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Android custom Preference: Where to put code for cleanup?
I'm creating a custom android.preference.Preference and in the constructor I need to register a listener for changes in SharedPreferences:
public class MyPreference extends Preference {
private final…

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eclipse coloring: how to config the background color of folding margin?
I checked every possible editor coloring options carefully, but the background color of folding margin seems not in the preferences dialog. Is it possible to config this?

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