You might be able to achieve what you want with a LineBackgroundSpan which is a ParagraphStyle. See http://developer.android.com/reference/android/text/style/ParagraphStyle.html
On Jan 20, 6:02 am, Vi7ER <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to write an app that involves paragraphs of text which I > would like to display images behind. What I mean by this is that > within a paragraph I would have (for example) the first 3 words with a > certain background (ideally a nine-patch style image) then the next 1 > word with a different image and the last 7 words with a another image. > > Now I know I can achieve a rudimentary version of this with setSpan > and BackgroundColor. But instead of a colour I want to set an image as > the spans background. > > I need to do it in a TextView because I require the wrapping of text > to occur as normal. Or in other words I need these image spans to be > able to cope with being split across 2 lines. Just like a selection > can be. > > I've toyed with using a combination of LinearLayouts, and TextViews to > represent spans (which makes the 9 patch easier) but this method makes > it tricky to work out how to split the textviews across lines (as the > linear layouts work in only one direction). > > I hope you get what I mean here :) > > If anyone has any idea how I can achieve this I would be very > grateful! I've looked at the available spannable objects here > :http://developer.android.com/resources/faq/commontasks.html#selecting... > but I can't find one that seems to do what I want (the descriptions of > what they do are a little lacking mind). > > Well, fingers crossed.... :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
