Fast Scroll display problem with ListAdapter and SectionIndexer

I have a list of events which are seperated by month and year (Jun 2010, Jul 2010 etc.). I have enabled fast scrolling because the list is really long. I've also implemented SectionIndexer so that people can see what month and year they are currently viewing when scrolling down the list of events at speed.

I don't have any problem with the implementation, just how the information is shown. Fast scrolling with SectionIndexer seems to only really be able to support a label with a single letter. If the list was alphabetised this would be perfect, however I want it to display a bit more text.

If you look at the screenshot bellow you'll see the problem I'm having.

_{(source: matto1990.com)}

What I want to know is: is it possible to change how the text in the centre of the screen is displayed. Can I change it somehow to make it look right (with the background covering all of the text).

Thanks in advance. If you need any clarification, or code just ask.

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EDIT: Full sample code for this solution available here.

I had this same problem - I needed to display full text in the overlay rectangle rather than just a single character. I managed to solve it using the following code as an example: http://code.google.com/p/apps-for-android/source/browse/trunk/RingsExtended/src/com/example/android/rings_extended/FastScrollView.java

The author said that this was copied from the Contacts app, which apparently uses its own implementation rather than just setting fastScrollEnabled="true" on the ListView. I altered it a little bit so that you can customize the overlay rectangle width, overlay rectangle height, overlay text size, and scroll thumb width.

For the record, the final result looks like this: http://nolanwlawson.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/pokedroid_1.png

All you need to do is add these values to your res/values/attrs.xml:

<declare-styleable name="CustomFastScrollView">

    <attr name="overlayWidth" format="dimension"/>
    <attr name="overlayHeight" format="dimension"/>
    <attr name="overlayTextSize" format="dimension"/>
    <attr name="overlayScrollThumbWidth" format="dimension"/>

</declare-styleable>

And then use this CustomFastScrollView instead of the one in the link:

public class CustomFastScrollView extends FrameLayout 
        implements OnScrollListener, OnHierarchyChangeListener {

    private Drawable mCurrentThumb;
    private Drawable mOverlayDrawable;

    private int mThumbH;
    private int mThumbW;
    private int mThumbY;

    private RectF mOverla


                        
                        
                            answered 2011-03-29T15:02:22.333

Fast Scroll display problem with ListAdapter and SectionIndexer

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