Maybe your text settings are overwritten by the getView method of the
simple adapter.  That is the method where you want to set text
characteristics.  Otherwise a scroll down the list and return to item
2 will remove your bold.

Good luck!

On Oct 21, 7:41 pm, cartoontan <tap.sop...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have created a ListView with rows of text+icon. On certain
> conditions, I want to BOLD the text on a particular row.
>
> I first tried it out in the On-Click and it works.
>
>         myListView.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener(){
>             public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View v, int
> position,long id) {
>                 TextView b1 = (TextView) v.findViewById
> (R.id.itemText);
>                 b1.setTypeface(null, Typeface.BOLD);
>                 Log.i(TAG, "onItemClick  ..."+b1.getText());
>                //b1.setText("testing");
>             }});
>
> However when I put the codes into a function and call it (I created a
> menu item to activate it), the text does not become bold.
>
>     public void setBold() {
>         View v = (View) mySimpleAdapter.getView(2, null,
> myListView);    // get row 3
>         TextView tv2 = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.itemText);
>         tv2.setTypeface(null, Typeface.BOLD);
>         Log.i(TAG, "setBold ..."+tv2.getText());
>         tv2.setText("testing");
>         //v.invalidate();
>        //mySimpleAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
>     }
>
> The Log in setBold function does show up, so I believe the codes in
> setBold() are being executed. What is so different about on-Click that
> refreshed the ListView but not through the function?
>
> I am using the default ListView and a SimpleAdapter to populate the
> List.
>
> Is there something I should add to the setBold() to refresh the view
> or is there other better way to change the textView to bold?
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