Question

So, I want the user to be able to type over an image that I set to an Image View. The image is set and works. When the user clicks the image, an Edit Text box shows up where they clicked. But the white background of the Edit Text blocks the image in the background. So, I set the Edit Text background to transparent:

    editTextOne.setBackgroundColor(Color.TRANSPARENT);

This works with making the Edit Text background transparent. However, now the cursor also doesn’t display, unless, the begin typing.

So, what I’m asking is if there is anyway to make the EditText background transparent but still have the cursor show and blink? Any help will be greatly appreciated, thanks!

Code:

    public boolean onTouch(View view, MotionEvent event){
            if (type == true){
                touchX = (int) event.getX();
                touchY = (int) event.getY();
                RelativeLayout.LayoutParams params = (RelativeLayout.LayoutParams) editTextOne.getLayoutParams();
                params.leftMargin = touchX;
                params.topMargin = touchY;
                params.addRule(RelativeLayout.ALIGN_PARENT_TOP);
                params.addRule(RelativeLayout.ALIGN_PARENT_LEFT);
                editTextOne.setLayoutParams(params);
                editTextOne.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
                editTextOne.bringToFront();
                editTextOne.setBackgroundColor(Color.TRANSPARENT);
                editTextOne.requestFocus();
                editTextOne.setCursorVisible(true);
            }//end of if statement
            return true;
        }//end of onTouch

XML:

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
  <RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:id="@+id/relative" >

<Button
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_toLeftOf="@+id/load"
    android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
    android:layout_margin="10dp"
    android:text="C"
    android:textStyle="bold"
    android:textSize="20dp"
    android:id="@+id/camera"
    android:onClick="camera"/>

<Button
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_toLeftOf="@+id/view"
    android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
    android:layout_margin="10dp"
    android:id="@+id/load"
    android:text="L"
    android:textStyle="bold"
    android:textSize="20dp"
    android:onClick="load"/>

<Button
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
    android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
    android:layout_margin="10dp"
    android:text="v"
    android:id="@+id/view"
    android:textStyle="bold"
    android:textSize="20dp"
    android:onClick="view"/>

<Button 
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_toLeftOf="@+id/camera"
    android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
    android:layout_margin="10dp"
    android:text="T"
    android:textStyle="bold"
    android:textSize="20dp"
    android:id="@+id/text"
    android:onClick="text"/>

<TextView 
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:background="@null"
    android:visibility="invisible"
    android:id="@+id/textone"/>

<EditText
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:visibility="invisible"
    android:inputType="textAutoCorrect"
    android:singleLine="true"
    android:id="@+id/edittextone"/>

<ImageView
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_centerInParent="true"
    android:id="@+id/picture"/>

</RelativeLayout>  

EDIT: I’m not to sure why the cursor wouldn’t display right away but I found that the cursor was visible once the space bar was pressed. So, in order to solve my problem I used:

     editTextOne.setText(" ");

This places a space as the initial text, and therefore, displays the cursor. I hope that this may help someone else stuck with a similar problem.

Answer 1

Have you tried manually setting the focus to the text view? After you show the view, you can try calling requestFocus()?

Also, you can attempt to explicitly set the cursor to visible through the setCursorVisible method.