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    copied!<p>I am using an AutoCompleteTextView to show a list of items the user can select. When the users selects an item, this selected item fills a ListView just below the AutoCompleteTextView. So far so good.</p> <p>The issue: after the selection of the item out of the AutoCompleteTextView, the AutoCompleteTextView body itself (this "text-box") gets filled up with some text, which is the SimpleCursorAdapter resource (the actual text showing up is: android.widget.SimpleCursorAdapter@4107d010).</p> <p>What I wish to have: I want the AutoCompleteTextView to refresh and show no text in its own body so the user can immediately type in more text and select further items out of the drop-down list. </p> <p>Could you please give me a hint how I could achieve that?</p> <p>Added information:</p> <p>Thank you Kyle. What I did was to extend SimpleCursorAdapter to SimpleCursorAdapterNoText. I then overridden convertToString() just like you said. I didn't change BindView because I read the documentation twice but I still don't understand what I should change in BindView. Any way - This didn't save the problem - I still get the same string in the AutoComplete. Here is my code:</p> <pre><code>@SuppressWarnings("deprecation") private void populateListView() { // Get all of the notes from the database and create the item list Cursor tournamentXCursor = mDbHelper.retrieveTrounamentX(mRowId); startManagingCursor(tournamentXCursor); // Create an array to specify the fields we want to display in the list (only name) String[] from = new String[] {StournamentConstants.TblX.TBL_COLUMN_X_NAME}; // and an array of the fields we want to bind those fields to (in this case just name) int[] to = new int[]{R.id.competitor_row}; // Now create an array adapter and set it to display using our row SimpleCursorAdapterNoText tournamentX = new SimpleCursorAdapterNoText(this, R.layout.competitor_row, tournamentXCursor, from, to); tournamentX.convertToString(tournamentXCursor); setListAdapter(tournamentX); } </code></pre> <p>Anyone has a clue what I am doing wrong?</p> <p>EDITED: This is my inherited SimpleCursorAdapter class</p> <pre><code> public class SimpleCursorAdapterNoText extends SimpleCursorAdapter { public SimpleCursorAdapterNoText(Context context, int layout, Cursor c, String[] from, int[] to) { super(context, layout, c, from, to); // TODO Auto-generated constructor stub } @Override public CharSequence convertToString(Cursor cursor) { //Empty string so AutoComplete shows no text return ""; } @Override public void bindView(View view, Context context, Cursor cursor) { // TODO Auto-generated method stub super.bindView(view, context, cursor); } } </code></pre> <p>I changed my calling code and eliminated </p> <pre><code>tournamentX.convertToString(tournamentXCursor); </code></pre> <p>I was convinced it is essential that I not only override it in my subclass but that I also use it in my calling code so the text inside the AutoComplete will be eliminated.</p> <p>I am sag to say the this still didn't help - I keep on getting android.database.sqlite.SQLiteCursor@41377578 in the AutoCompleteBox just after I select one item off the AutoComplete selection list.</p> <p>Thanks D.</p>
 

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