How to set a long string in a text view in a single line with horizontal scroll

Question

actually i have keep one scrollview. Inside that scroll view I set one textview at run time I want to set text in that textview. The string which I'm going to set is some what big in length so i could not get the string in a single line and i can get my string two or three lines. My scroll view layout width size is 250px. I dont want to exceed that size...My expectation is i want to see that string within that scrollview as single line if the string is exceeds the scroll size then it should horizontally scroll in text view. I tried some functions like setting horizontal scroll to scrollview and textview but nothing is work out. Pls help me how to solve this problem.

urs,

s.kumaran.

Answer 1

you have to use these two Xml attributes in your TextView widget:

android:scrollHorizontally="true"

android:singleLine="true"

So your xml layout must contain something like this:

<TextView
        android:text="Single-line text view that scrolls automatically if the text is too long to fit in the widget" 
        android:singleLine="true" 
        android:ellipsize="marquee"
        android:marqueeRepeatLimit ="marquee_forever"
        android:focusable="true"
        android:focusableInTouchMode="true" 
        android:scrollHorizontally="true"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content" 
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>

you can get the correspondant method for these attributes if you are creating Your TextView with code, refer to TextView documentation :

setHorizontallyScrolling(boolean)
setTransformationMethod(TransformationMethod)
setMarqueeRepeatLimit(int)

Answer 2

try this ,,

TextView.setHorizontallyScrolling(true) TextView.setLines(1);

where did you add the textview..Inside scrollview we able to add only one view...

Answer 3

Take TextView and HorizontalScrollView. Just put textview inside the HorizontalScrollView. And yes make sure to mentioned android:singleLine="true" inside the TextView.