How to enable selection markers for EditText in PopupWindow?

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I'm using a EditText in a PopupWindow. It shows OK, but the selection markers do not show up in the EditText. Neither does the Options menu change when I long press in the EditText. In LogCat I see a warning

TextView does not support text selection. Action mode cancelled.

As a result, the EditText cannot copy/paste text from the clipboard. Is there any way to get the "normal" EditText behaviour in a PopupWindow?

This code shows the problem, but I have also tried lots of variations:

EditText edit = new EditText(getContext());
edit.setBackgroundColor(Color.BLUE);
PopupWindow popup = new PopupWindow(edit, 100, 100, true);
popup.setBackgroundDrawable(new BitmapDrawable());
popup.showAtLocation(this, Gravity.NO_GRAVITY, 100, 200);

I think here is what you need: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4134117/edittext-on-a-popup-window — Tran Hieu, Feb 11 '14 at 08:58
this seems an issue right now. see this http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=62508 You can use Dialog instead of PopupWindow if requirements allow so. — techieWings, Feb 21 '14 at 10:37

score -1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 25 '14 at 03:28

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Try this,

   editText.setSelectAllOnFocus(true);

answered Mar 25 '14 at 03:28

Aneez

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No, that is not relevant to the problem I was having. I can select the text OK, but the markers do not appear. Alos, this question is 2 1/2 years old: I worked around the problem with a completely different approach. – Gerrit Beuze Mar 26 '14 at 07:43
Sorry , while searching I came to see this question. Any way , You got any solution now ? – Aneez Mar 26 '14 at 07:46
No, not for this specific problem. I ended up using a DialogFragment rather than a popup window containing an EditView. Not what I wanted, but I coudl not find a way to make the popup window work. – Gerrit Beuze Mar 27 '14 at 08:42

How to enable selection markers for EditText in PopupWindow?

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