Android Question EditText Not Drawing Correctly

[colboy]

I have two panels, one contains a large EditText and the other contains 2 small EditTexts and a CheckBox. I want to change the color of the EditTexts so run the following code in the Activity_Create:

    Dim cd As ColorDrawable
    cd.Initialize(Colors.White,0)  'white background of text box
    edtNote.Background=cd
    edtInitials.Background=cd
    edtBarcode.Background=cd

When the program runs, the first, large EditText does not fill the width. If I click on it and slide my finger across, it then draws correctly.

Attached are two screen grabs. The first is the incorrect one, the second is how it should look.
Any ideas to correct this?

Thanks, Colin

 

[Cableguy]

I don't get it, why create a colordrawable for a solid color (or even a semi-transparent)?

 

[Mahares]

Any ideas to correct this?

When you are dealing with ColorDrawable, you need to create one colordrawable for each edittext especially when they are not the same width. No one size fits all.

 

[colboy]

I don't get it, why create a colordrawable for a solid color (or even a semi-transparent)?

Solved. I think I copied some code to change the EditText background color, when I could do the same by doing

edtBarcode.color=Color.White

So now that's fixed, shouldn't both methods work the same?

 

[Cableguy]

Solved. I think I copied some code to change the EditText background color, when I could do the same by doing

edtBarcode.color=Color.White

So now that's fixed, shouldn't both methods work the same?

Nop, the colordrawable will retain the size of the first view it is used on, and when you set it to another view with a different size it won' automatically redraw. You may solve it by calling invalidate on the views to force the redraw

 

[Erel]

You should never use the same drawable object with multiple views. Create a new drawable for each view.