Wish: TextView or something can display long text

susu

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Just a basic but useful view, huh? ;)
 

susu

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Maybe I didn't tell you about the problem enough:

I build my own web services to collect data and export into xml file. My Android app will retrieve data from xml file. I want to display the content on a ScrollView so that user can scroll up/down to read. But I can't control the length of the text (it can be very long but sometime it's short).

- Firstly, I tried EditText but I deleted it because I can't change the transparency level (and keyboard will pop up when user touch it).

- Now the only way is combining Label with ScrollView. But how can I set the Label.Height if I don't know how long the text will be? It's the same with Inner Height property of ScrollView. All I can do is set it a very big value and hope the text length will not over it. But with short text, it's very ugly (and looks amatuer).

Please do something. Thank you.
 

susu

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Thank you Erel, but if you add TextView into B4A, my life will be easier :D
 

susu

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Oh, so I need a... SuperTextView :icon_clap:
 

JesseW

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susu, there is an identical discussion in the Questions forum. See it here. Maybe this will help, as the problems already been resolved :)
 

susu

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Yes, I resolved the problem with that code already :D
 

jroriz

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After much trying, I came to a very very simple and effective solution: webview!

Use YourWebview.LoadHtml ("<html> <body>" & YourLongFile & "</ body> </ html>")

Thed webview will do the trick... That simple.
 

merlin2049er

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sweet, let me try this...

Very simple solution, thanks!
 
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