Android Question B4XComboBox text color

[Acuario]

I have a view with several B4XComboBox views. I populate the B4XComboBox view with a list of values. For some reason the text color of the selected B4XComboBox is always white. If I change the color with xxxx.cmbBox.TextColor = Colors.Red then the color of the dropdown list text changes (I thought that was supposed to be the DropdownTextColor property!) but the main box with the selected value remains white - so obviously can't be seen.

I have XUIViews 2.50 installed.

What is wrong?

 

[Erel]

You should set both DropdownTextColor and TextColor. Make sure to set them before adding items.

 

[Acuario]

That's what I'm doing:

    genOverride.cmbBox.Color = Colors.White
    genOverride.cmbBox.TextColor = Colors.Black
    genOverride.cmbBox.DropdownBackgroundColor = Colors.White
    genOverride.cmbBox.DropdownTextColor = Colors.Black
    
    Dim Items As List
    Items.Initialize
    Items.Add("No")
    Items.Add("Yes")
    genOverride.SetItems(Items)

Result:
The dropdown background is white, text is black
Combobox background is white, text is not shown - I changed the Color to non-white and still no text.

In the changed event the text is read correctly, as is the index:

Private Sub genOverride_SelectedIndexChanged (Index As Int)
    Log("Index=" & Index)
    Log("Val:" & genOverride.cmbBox.GetItem(Index))
End Sub

Any suggestions?

 

[Erel]

Best if you create a small project with this code.

 

[Acuario]

Ok, after some investigation I found the 'problem' which appears to be the width of the view.
With entries Yes/No at font size 10, anything less than a width of 72 causes the Yes to truncate to Y..
With setting of 73 it's ok. I have height at 20 which is also ok.
It seems the container for the view is occupying a large amount of the view.
Is there a way to change this and 'recover' the blank space?

 

[Erel]

No. You can however use B4XDialog + B4XListTemplate instead.