Handling click events on a drawable within an Edit

Question

I have added an image right of the text in an EditText widget, using the following XML:

<EditText
  android:id="@+id/txtsearch"
  ...
  android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
  android:background="@layout/shape"
  android:hint="Enter place,city,state"
  android:drawableRight="@drawable/cross" />

But I want to clear the EditText when the embedded image is clicked. How can I do this?

Answer 1

Better to have ImageButton on Right of edit text and give negative layout margin to overlap with edit text. Set listener on ImageButton and perform operations.

Answer 2

Its very simple. Lets say you have a drawable on left side of your EditText 'txtsearch'. Following will do the trick.

EditText txtsearch = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.txtsearch);
txtsearch.setOnTouchListener(new OnTouchListener() {
    @Override
    public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
        if(event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP) {
            if(event.getRawX() <= txtsearch.getTotalPaddingLeft()) {
                // your action for drawable click event

             return true;
            }
        }
        return false;
    }
});

If you want for right drawable change the if statement to:

if(event.getRawX() >= txtsearch.getRight() - txtsearch.getTotalPaddingRight())

Similarly, you can do it for all compound drawables.

txtsearch.getTotalPaddingTop()
txtsearch.getTotalPaddingBottom()

This method call returns all the padding on that side including any drawables. You can use this even for TextView, Button etc.

Click here for reference from android developer site.

Answer 3

@Override
    public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {

        Drawable drawableObj = getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.search_btn);
        int drawableWidth = drawableObj.getIntrinsicWidth();

        int x = (int) event.getX();
        int y = (int) event.getY();

        if (event != null && event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP) {
            if (x >= (searchPanel_search.getWidth() - drawableWidth - searchPanel_search.getPaddingRight())
                    && x <= (searchPanel_search.getWidth() - searchPanel_search.getPaddingRight())

                    && y >= searchPanel_search.getPaddingTop() && y <= (searchPanel_search.getHeight() - searchPanel_search.getPaddingBottom())) {

                getSearchData();
            }

            else {
                InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
                imm.showSoftInput(searchPanel_search, InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED);
            }
        }
        return super.onTouchEvent(event);

    }

Answer 4

Actually you don't need to extend any class. Let's say I have an EditText editComment with a drawableRight

    editComment.setOnTouchListener(new OnTouchListener() {
        @Override
        public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
            final int DRAWABLE_LEFT = 0;
            final int DRAWABLE_TOP = 1;
            final int DRAWABLE_RIGHT = 2;
            final int DRAWABLE_BOTTOM = 3;

            if(event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP) {
                if(event.getRawX() >= (editComment.getRight() - editComment.getCompoundDrawables()[DRAWABLE_RIGHT].getBounds().width())) {
                    // your action here

                 return true;
                }
            }
            return false;
        }
    });

we getRawX() because we want to get the actual position of touch on screen, not relative to parent.

To get left side click

if(event.getRawX() <= (editComment.getCompoundDrawables()[DRAWABLE_LEFT].getBounds().width())) 

Answer 5

<FrameLayout
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:padding="5dp" >

            <EditText
                android:id="@+id/edt_status_text"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_marginBottom="10dp"
                android:background="@drawable/txt_box_blank"
                android:ems="10"
                android:hint="@string/statusnote"
                android:paddingLeft="5dp"
                android:paddingRight="10dp"
                android:textColor="@android:color/black" />

            <Button
                android:id="@+id/note_del"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_gravity="right"
                android:layout_marginRight="1dp"
                android:layout_marginTop="5dp"
                android:background="@android:drawable/ic_delete" />
        </FrameLayout>

Answer 6

That last contribution's use of contains(x,y) won't work directly on the result of getBounds() (except, by coincidence, when using "left" drawables). The getBounds method only provides the Rect defining points of the drawable item normalized with origin at 0,0 - so, you actually need to do the math of the original post to find out if the click is in the area of the drawable in the context of the containing EditText's dimensions, but change it for top, right, left etc. Alternatively you could describe a Rect that has coordinates actually relative to its position in the EditText container and use contains(), although in the end you're doing the same math.

Combining them both gives you a pretty complete solution, I only added an instance attribute consumesEvent that lets the API user decide if the click event should be passed on or not by using its result to set ACTION_CANCEL or not.

Also, I can't see why the bounds and actionX, actionY values are instance attributes rather than just local on the stack.

Here's a cutout from an implementation based on the above that I put together. It fixes an issue that to properly consume the event you need to return false. It adds a "fuzz" factor to. In my use case of a Voice control icon in an EditText field, I found it hard to click, so the fuzz increases the effective bounds that are considered clicking the drawable. For me 15 worked well. I only needed drawableRight so I didn't plug the math in the others, to save some space, but you see the idea.

package com.example.android;

import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.drawable.Drawable;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.MotionEvent;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.graphics.Rect;

import com.example.android.DrawableClickListener;

public class ClickableButtonEditText extends EditText {
  public static final String LOG_TAG = "ClickableButtonEditText";

  private Drawable drawableRight;
  private Drawable drawableLeft;
  private Drawable drawableTop;
  private Drawable drawableBottom;
  private boolean consumeEvent = false;
  private int fuzz = 0;

  private DrawableClickListener clickListener;

  public ClickableButtonEditText(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
    super(context, attrs, defStyle);
  }

  public ClickableButtonEditText(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
    super(context, attrs);
  }

  public ClickableButtonEditText(Context context) {
    super(context);
  }

  public void consumeEvent() {
    this.setConsumeEvent(true);
  }

  public void setConsumeEvent(boolean b) {
    this.consumeEvent = b;
  }

  public void setFuzz(int z) {
    this.fuzz = z;
  }

  public int getFuzz() {
    return fuzz;
  }

  @Override
  public void setCompoundDrawables(Drawable left, Drawable top, Drawable right, Drawable bottom) {
    if (right != null) {
      drawableRight = right;
    }

    if (left != null) {
      drawableLeft = left;
    }
    super.setCompoundDrawables(left, top, right, bottom);
  }

  @Override
  public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
    if (event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN) {
      int x, y;
      Rect bounds;
      x = (int) event.getX();
      y = (int) event.getY();
      // this works for left since container shares 0,0 origin with bounds
      if (drawableLeft != null) {
        bounds = drawableLeft.getBounds();
        if (bounds.contains(x - fuzz, y - fuzz)) {
          clickListener.onClick(DrawableClickListener.DrawablePosition.LEFT);
          if (consumeEvent) {
            event.setAction(MotionEvent.ACTION_CANCEL);
            return false;
          }
        }
      } else if (drawableRight != null) {
        bounds = drawableRight.getBounds();
        if (x >= (this.getRight() - bounds.width() - fuzz) && x <= (this.getRight() - this.getPaddingRight() + fuzz) 
              && y >= (this.getPaddingTop() - fuzz) && y <= (this.getHeight() - this.getPaddingBottom()) + fuzz) {

          clickListener.onClick(DrawableClickListener.DrawablePosition.RIGHT);
          if (consumeEvent) {
            event.setAction(MotionEvent.ACTION_CANCEL);
            return false;
          }
        }
      } else if (drawableTop != null) {
        // not impl reader exercise :)
      } else if (drawableBottom != null) {
        // not impl reader exercise :)
      }
    }

    return super.onTouchEvent(event);
  }

  @Override
  protected void finalize() throws Throwable {
    drawableRight = null;
    drawableBottom = null;
    drawableLeft = null;
    drawableTop = null;
    super.finalize();
  }

  public void setDrawableClickListener(DrawableClickListener listener) {
    this.clickListener = listener;
  }
}