The concept of assigning text to a UI element
The concept of assigning text to a UI element.
Does not specifically refer to a programming language-specific or library-specific API but the general concept.
Questions tagged [settext]
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Android Edittext: Get LineCount in an Activity's onCreate()
How can I do getLineCount() of an Edittext in the onCreate() method of an activity, having changed the Edittext's text, like the following:
@override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState){
myEditText.setText("EXAMPLE");
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Android Eclipse editText not displaying after setText on local instance
I call on a few EditTexts via "instanceOf" because I don't necessarily know the exact names / ids of them. When I do this to get the text, it works just fine. But when I try to setText() based on the local instanceOf EditText, it won't display…
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how to set new text in JTextField after creation?
I have a jTextField , and I set it's value to a certain sum when I create the frame.
Here is the initiation code:
totalTextField.setText(
itemsPriceTextField.getText() +
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Issues setting my textView via MainActivity.java
I am trying to set text in my MainActivity.java, but the text fails to appear in emulator.
My activity_main.xml
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El Vencedor
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textView.setText(); crashes
The setText() method returns null in my application why?
public class GetValue extends Activity {
char letter = 'g';
int ascii = letter;
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle…
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Why does TextView.setText() warn you not to concatenate strings?
If I do something like this
someTextView.setText(someString + " and more!");
it warns me "Do not concatenate text displayed with setText. Use resource string with placeholders."
Why does it warn this when string concatenation seems to work just…
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Adjust text size to fit button in Android
I have a number of buttons in a LinearLayout.
The buttons have 1 weight, so they are placed evenly into the layout.
I want to do something like this
for (int i = 0; i < texts.size(); ++i) {
Button button = new Button(/*context*/);
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sasha199568
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setText not working for a Custom Edittext
I am using a nice Material design edit text which I found from github: https://github.com/rengwuxian/MaterialEditText
and updated the dependency section as :
dependencies {
compile 'com.rengwuxian.materialedittext:library:2.0.3'
}
The edittext…
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TextView not showing up on Android device?
I have a few views in a Linear Layout. After clicking a button, some math is done. The result is then displayed in a textview. It works fine on the emulator, but it does not on my Android device.
Entire Layout file:
Akutow
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Update TextView in Custom Notification Layout
I made a custom layout for a foreground service with notification (obviously) that includes some TextViews.
At some point the TextView's text needs to be changed, so I've been using setText method to do so.
The problem is: nothing happens, it…
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How can a textfield from fxml file be updated by setText in java file?
I am looking to update text in a textfield based on some value. In order to make this sample simpler I have made my program smaller. The problem seems to be when I put top.setText("This is my new Text");
I looked at this:
how to change the text of…
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Is it possible to highlight text in TextView without re - setText() completely?
For instance, I want to make a karaoke in a huge-huge text in a TextView.
I got an array of milliseconds and with MediaPlayer's getCurrentTime() I need to highlight words corresponding to this array.
The problem is if I do the refreshing with…
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Android TextView Memory Leakage
I am developing a Music Application, in which a Seekbar is being used. I have one method which handles the seekbar performance, and which works well. but if seekbar is in action there is a memory leakage and the Log cat shows like
GC_CONCURRENT…
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Trouble Adding text to JTextArea (append or settext)
So the program I am making uses 2 threads: One for the GUI and one to do the work.
I want updates from the work thread/class to print out on JTextArea in GUI class.
Everything I tried didn't seem to work. I added lines to print out text on the…
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Click "send" settext from text field to textarea
Hope someone could give me a wee bit of advice. I am really new to Java (1-2 weeks) and have been using tutorials to get this far but nothing I try allows me to do a (simple) task.
When I click the button send in my GUI, I want it to set text/add…
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