B4J Question Set different background colors for portions of text.

[MrKim]

I though BBLabel was the answer to my prayers but it appear there is no way to set the background color for individual portions of text. Is that true?

Or let me just state my problem. Perhaps someone has an answer.

I want to set 10 to 20 columns of text in a scrollable list. I want to be able to set the font color, background color, Text size, and bold for each column.
The list will generally contain between 10 and 200 rows but could go to maybe 500 but that would be rare and I don't care if that is slow. One column on each row may have a picture.

Does not need to be editable. Does need to be drag and drop. The user needs to be able to click anywhere on the row to drag and drop it.

What is the most efficient - in terms of speed - method to accomplishing this. I don't mind writing more code but it needs to be fast as the list will be refreshed frequently.

Text area is fast but doesn't do colors. BBLabel was very slow - required lazy loading - but evidently only does text color, not background. My next thought is a whole bunch of textfields or labels in a row with a pane on top for the drag and drop, Or just set every label to be drag and drop, but before I spent hours trying that I thought I'd see if anyone here has any better tjoughts.

Thanks for your ideas.

 

[Erel]

Why are you using BBLabel?
You should use BBCodeView for scrollable text.
You should use it instead of the complete list.

It is not simple to change the columns background color.

 

[MrKim]

Why are you using BBLabel?
You should use BBCodeView for scrollable text.

Because I need to be able drag and drop based on each row.

You should use it instead of the complete list.

I'm not sure what this means.

It is not simple to change the columns background color.

So basically I need to use a separate view for each field and make each one draggable?

 

[Erel]

BBCodeView is indeed not relevant if you need each row to be draggable.

 

[MrKim]

BBCodeView is indeed not relevant if you need each row to be draggable.

Do you have a suggestion? I am fiddling with B4XTable at the moment. Tying to see if it will do all I want.

 

[Erel]

Another thing that you can try is B4JTextFlow. It is available in XUI Views and was used to create rich strings before BCTextEngine was available.

 

[MrKim]

B4XTable seems to offer a lot of what I want but does not appear to have a scrollbar? Or at least not a vertical one.

 

[MrKim]

Another thing that you can try is B4JTextFlow. It is available in XUI Views and was used to create rich strings before BCTextEngine was available.

Sigh, it doesn't offer backcolor either.

 

[Erel]

B4XTable seems to offer a lot of what I want but does not appear to have a scrollbar?

It is page based. No vertical scrolling.

 

[MrKim]

It is page based. No vertical scrolling.

Makes it tough to review data from row to row for comparison. Too bad, it is truly a thing of beauty. Also, it would be nice it it allowed formatting columns, not just number columns (including of course the backcolor).

 

[Erel]

Also, it would be nice it it allowed formatting columns

Everything in B4XTable can be formatted and customized.