android-discuss, EditText appearance

by **Mr.No** » Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:06:52 GMT

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 Hello,
how do i change the size, style, typeface of a hint?
If the EditText gains the focus the border-color changes to orange,
how do i set a other color?

rgds
       Mr.No
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by **Mr.No** » Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:31:04 GMT

 Hello,
how do i change the size, style, typeface of a hint?
If the EditText gains the focus the border-color changes to orange,
how do i set a other color?

rgds
       Mr.No
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by **Tseng** » Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:42:09 GMT

 You could create a colorstate list (xml file in res/drawable), for
example
 http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/res/ColorStateList.html 

Here is an example i used for textcolors. Should work for HintColors
too!

res/drawabale/myedittextcolors.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android=" http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" ;>
    <item
        android:state_focused="true"
        android:state_pressed="false"
                android:color="@android:color/secondary_text_dark" />
    <item
        android:state_focused="true"
        android:state_pressed="true"
                android:color="@android:color/secondary_text_dark" />
    <item
        android:state_focused="false"
        android:state_pressed="true"
                android:color="@android:color/secondary_text_dark" />
    <item
        android:color="@android:color/secondary_text_dark" />
</selector>

Now you only have to assign it to your EditText widget.

Edit the XML and change

android:textColorHint="#FFFFFF"

to

android:textColorHint="@drawable/myedittextcolors"

and it should work. This is usefull if you want to have different
colors depending on the state of the edittext (i.e. if its focused,
clicked, etc).

For one color,
use android:textColorHint="#FFFFFF" or android:textColorHint="@color/
mycustomcolor" if you have defined your color in /res/values/
colors.xml









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by **Mr.No** » Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:36:28 GMT

 thx a lot :)



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by **Mr.No** » Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:06:37 GMT

 Can i assigne a colorstate list to the background?
And how do i change the bordercolor when the edittext gains the focus,
without placing a backgroundimage?

Tseng schrieb:

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