You can emulate stroked text by setting the Shadow Color (stroke color) and Shadow Radius (stroke width) but leaving the Shadow Dx and Dy as zero.
-Nick On Tuesday, July 24, 2012 1:31:41 PM UTC-5, MagouyaWare wrote: > > There really is no way for adding a stroke to text... I believe you asked > about that in another post. To do that you would need to subclass > Button... And then you would need to do a whole lot of work in the onDraw() > method. I don't know if that would be worth the effort. > > Even if you decide it is worth the effort, don't do anything in the > subclass relating to the background of the button... just the text. > > Thanks, > Justin Anderson > MagouyaWare Developer > http://sites.google.com/site/magouyaware > > > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:57 AM, bob <b...@coolfone.comze.com> wrote: > >> The text. >> >> On Tuesday, July 24, 2012 9:14:28 AM UTC-5, MagouyaWare wrote: >>> >>> Stroking for what? The button or the text? >>> On Jul 24, 2012 7:58 AM, "bob" <b...@coolfone.comze.com> wrote: >>> >>>> And to achieve stroking? >>>> >>>> On Monday, July 23, 2012 3:59:05 PM UTC-5, Nobu Games wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Why don't you just create a state list drawable based on 9-patch >>>>> images instead of hacking redundant drawing operations into the Button >>>>> widget? >>>>> >>>>> For each button state (normal, selected, pressed...) you can create a >>>>> custom PNG graphics file. Use the >>>>> draw9patch<http://developer.android.com/tools/help/draw9patch.html>app >>>>> for converting them into 9 patch files. Create a state >>>>> list XML resource >>>>> file<http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/drawable-resource.html#StateList>in >>>>> your res/drawables folder. >>>>> >>>>> Set that state list resource as background drawable resource on your >>>>> button to customize its looks. >>>>> >>>>> If you want to make the label text look fancy, then you can play >>>>> around with text >>>>> shadow<http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TextView.html#attr_android:shadowColor>style >>>>> properties. >>>>> >>>>> On Monday, July 23, 2012 3:32:45 PM UTC-5, bob wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> I had to do this: >>>>>> >>>>>> android:background="@null" >>>>>> >>>>>> On Monday, July 23, 2012 1:02:40 PM UTC-5, bob wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> So, I'm making my own button class to have better-looking buttons. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I subclassed Button, and put this in: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> @Override >>>>>>> protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) { >>>>>>> String s = (String) this.getText(); >>>>>>> int w = this.getWidth(); >>>>>>> int h = this.getHeight(); >>>>>>> Button_Painter.paint_button(s, canvas, w, h); >>>>>>> } >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The issue is that this grey rectangle still gets drawn like so: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> http://postimage.org/image/**rhs**1omfql/<http://postimage.org/image/rhs1omfql/> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> In other words, part of the old drawing is still going on. I'm not >>>>>>> calling the superclass's onDraw… >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Any ideas? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "Android Developers" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to android-developers@** >>>> googlegroups.com <android-developers@googlegroups.com> >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> android-developers+**unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/**group/android-developers?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en> >>> >>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Android Developers" group. >> To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
