Hi, I'm not sure which thread timers fire in, but have you tried calling the setText explicitly from the UI thread?
final String timeSinceUpdate = tracker.getUpdateAge(); runOnUiThread(new Runnable() { public void run() { mMyTextView .setText("Current location (" + timeSinceUpdate + ")"; } } Peter. -----Original Message----- From: android-developers@googlegroups.com [mailto:android-develop...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Midian Sent: Tuesday, 14 April 2009 9:44 AM To: Android Developers Subject: [android-developers] TextView.setText doesn't update I have a Timer set up to update a TextView field once every second. Thing is, I can't see any changes on screen! Debugging shows... setText inside the timer function *is* being called. getText called on the text view returns the *correct* (new) text that just isn't displayed! I've tried TextView.postInvalidate() to no effect. Code below. Anyone seen this before? Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------- IN MyActivity.onCreate: mMyTextView = (TextView)this.findViewById (R.id.txtcurloctitle); FROM MyTimerTask.Run String timeSinceUpdate = tracker.getUpdateAge(); mMyTextView .setText("Current location (" + timeSinceUpdate + "):"); IN MyActivity.onOptionsItemSelected: AlertDialog.Builder msg = new AlertDialog.Builder(this); msg.setTitle("Debug"); msg.setMessage(mMyTextView.getText()); msg.setPositiveButton("OK", null); msg.show(); --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---