Android ListView item highlight programmatically
- by dhomes
Hi all,
I know it's been asked around but I haven't found quite the answer yet (new to Android so sorry about the ignorance)
my app's launch Activity has an EditText (called searchbox) , a ListView (designations) and a Spinner (types)
I use the EditText as a searchbox, I have to pass the string through a custom editing to make searching more flexible. After that I match that against the closest approximation I find in 'designations' and do
designations.setSelection(j);
As expected, this sets the desired item to the top of designations. But I can find a way to highlight it via code.
NOW, i do know that if the device is in touch mode the highlighting of a selected item won't occur. So the last 4 lines of my searchbox's onTextChanged event are:
designations.setFocusable(true);
designations.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);
if (match==true) designations.setSelection(j);
if (st.length()==0) designations.setSelection(0);
to no avail.
now, i don't have any code on searchbox's afterTextChanged(Editable s);
so could anyone give me a clue on this?
regards
~dh
