Android Question how to change background color edit text

NJDude

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• Apr 30, 2014

• #2

You can change the color like this:

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EditText1.Color = Colors.Red

 

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Roberto P.

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• May 1, 2014

• #3

Thanks, but I was wrong to apply: I meant to set the color by the designer.

 

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DonManfred

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• May 1, 2014

• #4

The colors came from the theme and - i think - cannot be set by designer. You need to do that by code if they should have other colors than the default in theme.

 

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Erel

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• May 1, 2014

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It is not really simple to change the color. If you call EditText.Color then you will get a quite ugly view. The EditText background is made of a 9 patch image.


If you want to change the background then you should create a new image.

 

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Roberto P.

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• May 1, 2014

• #6

Unfortunately I did not understand! Can you give me an example. Thanks

 

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Erel

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• May 1, 2014

• #7

Start with this tutorial: http://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/nine-patch-images-tutorial.14283/#content

 

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