I thought you are using a textview. I don't know if the canvas actually supports it.
do something like myTextView.setText(Html.fromHtml(myHtmlString)) by the way, I found the list of supported tags: •br •p •div •em •b •strong •cite •dfn •i •big •small •font •blockquote •tt •monospace •a •u •sup •sub On Mar 19, 9:09 am, Fina Perez <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! Thanks for your answer. > For my purpose, I just need the tags you mentioned. The problem is > that when I send the text to the rectangle, it loose the format. I do > something like: > > CharSequence myString; //it has for example <b>Hello</b> world > > //I dont know if this is correct > myString = Html.fromHtml(myString); > > //and now I paint the text > canvas.drawText(myString,...); > > But this isn't working, and I can't use a webView(or even a textView) > because I paint my view manually, with canvas and rectangles...I don't > know if there is a way to paint a textView, for example, in a BitMap. > > On Mar 19, 1:18 pm, lbendlin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > While it is possible, it is also very limited. Only a few HTML tags > > are honoured, like smaller/bigger, bold etc. I think that even for > > this little functionality you will spend a whole HTML rendering engine > > in memory, and that's just not worth it. > > > If you must, use a webview. > > > On Mar 18, 11:55 am, Fina Perez <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi!! > > > I'm trying to paint a rectangle, and inside it, put some text which is > > > "html-format" (sorry for my english, it is so bad ) I use CharSequence > > > (because this supports html) instead of String, and I call drawText > > > with those parameters, but the format isn't painted. > > > > Any idea? is it possible? > > > > Thanks a lot!- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- 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
