Programmatically Scrolling An EditText

I'm writing a simple caesar-encryption-activity. Two EditTexts on screen, one clear-text, one crypted. Here's an example for the crypted EditText - the cleartext one is similar. &l

Solution 1:

Ok, found it. It was the cursor (called Selection on EditText and TextViews).

This is how I got it to work:

ivClear    // assigned the EditText that has the input
ivCrypt    // assigned the target EditText, that I want to scroll
aText      // the input from ivClear, crypted

Then use:

    ivCrypt.setText(aText);                               // assign the Text
    ivCrypt.setSelection(ivClear.getSelectionStart());    // scroll

Phew, finally :) Always underestimated the power of the Spannable ;)

Solution 2:

The base class android.view.View has methods getScrollX(), getScrollY() and scrollTo() that may be helpful, though I haven't tried it.

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/View.html#scrollTo(int, int)