[android-developers] Re: Focus changes when changing the background for AutoCompleteTextView

Hadn't thought of using a StateListDrawable, which worked perfectly.
Thanks!

On May 23, 8:15 pm, Zsolt Vasvari <zvasv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know if this is expected behvior, but this kind of stuff you
> should probably handle with a StateListDrawable.  That way, you don't
> need to mess around with the focus handling, which I found to be quite
> messy (buggy?) in Android.
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> On May 24, 11:09 am, Tom <thomas.j.benn...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I want to have the background of an AutoCompleteTextView change
> > whenever the focus switches to the view. Seems easy enough, but after
> > overriding the onFocusChange method, I've noticed the focus switches
> > every time I call setBackgroundResource. To clarify, this code
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> >         @Override
> >         public void onFocusChange(View v, boolean hasFocus) {
> >                 if (hasFocus) {
> >                     v.setBackgroundResource(0);
> >                 } else {
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> > v.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.search_inactive);
> >                 }
> >             }
> >         }
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> > results in onFocusChange getting called twice, with hasFocus switching
> > values on each call, such that if the view is not focused, tapping it
> > will result in the calls:
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> >   onFocusChange(view, true)
> >   onFocusChange(view, false)
>
> > Is this expected behavior?

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