Android Question EditText changing colour when touched

[Yves Mazzon]

All,
I have a series of EditText boxes where I have to change the values from a soft keyboard. How can I highlight the EditText boxes individually when when they are touched or have focus either slightly change the colour or having a colour line around it? The colour should return to its initial stage when another one is touched. many thanks for your time.

Best regards,

Yves

 

[DonManfred]

Try this (using statelist drawables for each edittext

Sub Globals
    'These global variables will be redeclared each time the activity is created.
    'These variables can only be accessed from this module.

    Private EditText1 As EditText
    Private EditText2 As EditText
    Private EditText3 As EditText
    Private EditText4 As EditText
End Sub

Sub Activity_Create(FirstTime As Boolean)
    'Do not forget to load the layout file created with the visual designer. For example:
    Activity.LoadLayout("main")
  Dim checked, unchecked As ColorDrawable
  checked.Initialize(Colors.Green, 10dip)
  'unchecked.Initialize(Colors.Red, 10dip)

  Dim sld As StateListDrawable
  sld.Initialize
  sld.AddState(sld.State_Focused, checked)
  EditText1.Background = sld
  Dim sld As StateListDrawable
  sld.Initialize
  sld.AddState(sld.State_Focused, checked)
  EditText2.Background = sld
  Dim sld As StateListDrawable
  sld.Initialize
  sld.AddState(sld.State_Focused, checked)
  EditText3.Background = sld
  Dim sld As StateListDrawable
  sld.Initialize
  sld.AddState(sld.State_Focused, checked)
  EditText4.Background = sld
End Sub

 

[Yves Mazzon]

Many thanks Don,
First class help. I will try to apply your example to my application
Regards,
Yves

 

[DonManfred]

maybe i did something wrong mit this quick and dirty example...
i think the edittexts now looks something other than normal!?