You should actually be using an attribute instead of a direct reference: style="?android:attr/textViewStyle"
The underlying @style reference isn't public, but the above attr is. j On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 4:30 PM, MrSnowflake <mrsnowfl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Might be: style="@android:style/Widget.TextView" > > Otherwise, make a TextView and an EditText and change the GONE state > of them. > > On 18 mei, 19:33, Raphael <r...@android.com> wrote: >> Try this: >> android:style="@android:style/Widget.TextView" >> >> R/ >> >> On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Nikola Radosavljevic >> >> <nikolaradosavlje...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Note: I had troubles posting to android-beginners group, so I came here >> > hoping this will work. >> > Hello there, >> >> > I want an EditText to look like TextView but still behave like >> > EditText. I've tried applying TextView style to my EditText in my >> > layout.xml file, like this: >> >> > <EditText >> > android:id="@+id/lipsum" >> > android:text="Lorem ipsum" >> > android:style="@android:style/Widget_TextView" >> > /> >> >> > ..but I get an error within xml editor: "Error: No resource found that >> > matches the given name (at 'style' with value '@android:style/ >> > Widget_TextView')." It is strange because @android:style/ >> > Widget_TextView definitively exists - I double checked it in code via >> > android.R.style.Widget_TextView. Another strange thing is that I don't >> > get android:style offered in the xml editor while typing? There is >> > android:id, android:text and everything else.. but not >> > android:style?! >> >> > Note: I consider the hard way (making EditText look like TextView) to >> > be: extending EditText and overriding it's onDraw method. >> >> > Nikolar >> >> > PS: Check out >> >http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/themes.html#styles. >> > Why are id and style written without android: namespace? > > > -- Jeff Sharkey jshar...@android.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---