Android Question Setting a String variable to a CS style

[Mark Stuart]

I have a String code statement that I want to set with a CSBuilder statement.
It goes like this:

    Dim cs As CSBuilder
    cs.Initialize
    cs.Append("Phone Types ")
    cs.Typeface(Typeface.STYLE_ITALIC)                    '<==== Types do not match
    cs.Append("(").Append($"${phonetype}"$).Append(")")
    cs.Typeface(Typeface.DEFAULT)
    cs.PopAll
    
    Dim ptTitle As String = cs

The string then gets used in the code to load a ListView.AddTwoLinesAndBitmap2(ptTitle,.....)
But I get this syntax error: Types do not match on the line shown above.
How come it gives the syntax error on that line and not the other line: cs.Typeface(Typeface.DEFAULT)?

The appearance should look like this in the ListView:
Phone Types (Home)

 

[Robert Valentino]

You need to do something like this

cs.Typeface(Typeface.CreateNew(Typeface.DEFAULT, Typeface.STYLE_ITALIC))

 

[Mark Stuart]

You need to do something like this

cs.Typeface(Typeface.CreateNew(Typeface.DEFAULT, Typeface.STYLE_ITALIC))

Put your change into my code.
It did not set the text to italic.
Do you think I should dim a Label and set the label with the cs instead of a String variable?
Is that the problem?

 

[Mark Stuart]

So this is what I changed but it too didn't work as expected:

    Dim lbl As Label
    lbl.Initialize("")
    Dim cs As CSBuilder
    cs.Initialize
    cs.Append("Phone Types ")
    cs.Typeface(Typeface.CreateNew(Typeface.DEFAULT,Typeface.STYLE_ITALIC))
    cs.Append("(").Append($"${phonetype}"$).Append(")")
    cs.Typeface(Typeface.DEFAULT)
    cs.PopAll
    'Dim ptTitle As String = cs
    lbl.Text = cs

    lvSettings.AddTwoLinesAndBitmap2(lbl.Text,....

 

[Robert Valentino]

I am doing it in a normal label field. Not sure you can do this in a ListView.AddTwoLines

 

[Mark Stuart]

I am doing it in a normal label field. Not sure you can do this in a ListView.AddTwoLines

It seems that way. It's not a deal breaker, but would have been nice.
After all, the ListView.AddTwoLinesAndBitmap2(Text1 as CharSequence,...), is a CharSequence, which the CS result is.
I would call it a bug then.

 

[Robert Valentino]

You should look at this thread ListView

 

[Mark Stuart]

You should look at this thread ListView

Use EditText views instead?
Just tried that and the result is the same as the Label. No change.

 

[Robert Valentino]

I don't think you can use ListView for what you want to do.

But maybe ListView.TwoLinesLayout will give you the layout for two lines and maybe you can modify it to do what you want. But I don't really think so in this case

 

[Erel]

Better to use CustomListView.

 

[Mark Stuart]

Better to use CustomListView.

Will the CS I've used above work with a Label on a Customlistview?

 

[Erel]

Yes.