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Posted by Marcus Wareham
Marcus Wareham
260 Points

Cant Change Text Size or Style On Eclipse

Hey, I am trying to change the text size and style of a button / text view in Eclipse using the properties section on the right hand side when building a layout using the GUI.

I am running

Android Developer Tools

Build: v22.3.0-887826

On a MacBook Pro

From the Treehouse website

Is this a known problem

Thanks

Marcus

3 Answers

Jan Van Raemdonck
Jan Van Raemdonck
22,961 Points
Jan Van Raemdonck
Jan Van Raemdonck
22,961 Points

hey,

I'm having the same problem

however if you rightclick on the view you want to modify in the outline, you should be able to access all of the properties there (when you go to "other properties" you can see all the inherited properties as well.

I have not found a fix to use the properties panel yet.

Marcus Wareham
Marcus Wareham
260 Points
Marcus Wareham
Marcus Wareham
260 Points

Hey, Jan Van Raemdonck

I have just found this,

However still can not change the text colour, doing it this way

Thanks

Marcus

Jan Van Raemdonck
Jan Van Raemdonck
22,961 Points
Jan Van Raemdonck
Jan Van Raemdonck
22,961 Points

I found a better solution to our problem:

  1. Go to andriod SDK manager (top left of window, green andriod logo with arrow)
  2. Deselect all
  3. check Android 4.3 (API18) -> SDK platform)
  4. When download and setup have completed, restart eclipse.
  5. open one of your layouts (XML file, where you get the graphical representation of your app)
  6. in the top right corner, you can see the android logo with the current version next to it (probably 19) change that to 18
  7. now you can use the propeties panel like you should be able to.