Best way to display multi-line data in a textview

BGH · by **BGH** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 11:43 am

I have a layout which is a table layout with some textviews in the tablerows.

I want to display multiple lines of data in the textviews. At the moment I am just setting the textview to a String and the string contains new line characters. Such as

displayString = "Joe Bloggs" + "n" + "Henry Smith;

etc etc

The problem is that when I do this the second line is indented slightly compared to the first. It's only slight but it is quite annoying. If you look in the screenshot I have provided you will see that the second name in the list of names is always slightly indented.

Is there a better way I should be doing this? One thing I could do is have them as table rows which are created dynamically but I just thought I'd see if someone has a simple solution to the textview problem first.

BGH · by **BGH** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 9:18 am

Dont worry. I have solved this one. It came down to a quirk in the source data I am sourcing from a webpage. For some reason they post the first name fine and all the rest with a leading and trailing space.

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<tr>
 
                <th scope="row">Michael Bani</th>
 
                <td> 7m</td>
 
            </tr>
 
            <tr>
 
                <th scope="row"> Jamie Lyon </th>
 
                <td>11m</td>
 
            </tr>
 
            <tr>
 
                <th scope="row"> Andrew Suniula </th>
 
                <td>46m</td>
 
            </tr>
 
            <tr>
 
                <th scope="row"> Adam Cuthbertson </th>
 
                <td>49m</td>
 
            </tr>
 
            <tr>
 
                <th scope="row"> Jamie Lyon </th>
 
                <td>58m</td>
 
            </tr>
 
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A simple String.trim() sorted it all out.

Best way to display multi-line data in a textview

Best way to display multi-line data in a textview

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