[android-developers] Re: Crossword Puzzle in Android

2009-10-06 Thread Sables
Does this happen to be an assignment based question. On Oct 1, 4:33 pm, Seth Mould sethmo...@yahoo.com wrote: Carl, that's brilliant. The XML can be adapted to use bars and blocks as I described earlier, then overlayed with text boxes and hey presto! On Sep 28, 4:39 pm, Carl Whalley

[android-developers] Re: Crossword Puzzle in Android

2009-10-06 Thread AJ
@Carl: That is a very good example. You rock !!! Thanks, AJ On Oct 6, 7:09 pm, Sables em...@amnet.net.au wrote: Does this happen to be an assignment based question. On Oct 1, 4:33 pm, Seth Mould sethmo...@yahoo.com wrote: Carl, that's brilliant. The XML can be adapted to use bars and

[android-developers] Re: Crossword Puzzle in Android

2009-10-01 Thread Seth Mould
Carl, that's brilliant. The XML can be adapted to use bars and blocks as I described earlier, then overlayed with text boxes and hey presto! On Sep 28, 4:39 pm, Carl Whalley carl.whal...@googlemail.com wrote: I just put a tutorial up on making tiles scale correctly. Its not exactly what you

[android-developers] Re: Crossword Puzzle in Android

2009-09-28 Thread Seth Mould
Hi Kwan, I have a project on SourceForge called xW which seeks to establish a standard XML format for word puzzles, so you might want to look at that for your input. Try looking for open Sudoku projects -- there is more interest in Sudoku than crosswords and the rendering of cells is the same

[android-developers] Re: Crossword Puzzle in Android

2009-09-28 Thread Kwan Toh Choong
Hi All, Thanks for the advice from everyone. I've done a little bit of research, but I m not sure the idea of rendering the boxes with numbering is correct or not. Is it true that I can draw on a canvas? I m reading this tutorial

[android-developers] Re: Crossword Puzzle in Android

2009-09-28 Thread Carl Whalley
I just put a tutorial up on making tiles scale correctly. Its not exactly what you are doing but theres enough overlap to get you going. http://www.androidacademy.com/3-tutorials/43-hands-on/154-device-independent-display-scaling -- http://www.androidacademy.com On Sep 28, 1:05 pm, Kwan Toh

[android-developers] Re: Crossword Puzzle in Android

2009-09-27 Thread Dan Sherman
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=android+drawing+basics On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Kwan Toh Choong td00164...@gmail.comwrote: Hi All, Can anyone give me a brief idea on developing a simple crossword puzzle game with android? I need some guideline in things like: 1. drawing out the boxes 2.