Thanks a lot Romain. I hoped there would be a way to leverage somehow the standard View machinery. I couldn't find it as admittedly, I'm not very experienced with the standard UI toolkit.
On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 9:27 PM, Romain Guy <[email protected]> wrote: > One way to do this is to create a TextView, call measure() then layout() > on it and then call its draw() method to draw into a Bitmap. This will take > care of all the breaking, BiDi, etc. Note that TextView uses the Paint APIs > under the hood to measure text. > > > On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Latimerius <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I'm looking into localising an OpenGL app into several languages. I'm >> not too worried about short strings like button labels, however the welcome >> screen contains a paragraph or two of text and the tutorial has a couple of >> 2-3 lines text strings. Currently, they are pre-rendered and distributed >> as PNGs but ideally, they should be rendered on-the-fly to save texture >> space and avoid scaled text. >> >> To achieve that, it seems necessary to handle line breaking properly. >> However, I couldn't find an API in Android to help with that. I'm aware >> of Paint.breakText() but it seems too primitive for the task - it actually >> doesn't seem to handle proper line breaking at all. For Western languages, >> it should be mostly fine just to back off to the first space from what >> breakText() returns and break the line there. The problem is how to deal >> with Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese and Korean - also Thai would be >> nice), and later on with RTL languages, too. >> >> Some googling gave me the impression that in general, people like me >> shouldn't try to tackle the problem themselves - it's too complex and >> belongs into an operating system/application framework anyway. >> >> Is there something in Android platform to help turn a paragraph of text >> into a decent PNG of specified dimensions? >> >> Thanks in advance! >> >> -- >> -- >> 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 >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Android Developers" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > > > -- > Romain Guy > Android framework engineer > [email protected] > > -- > -- > 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 > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Android Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
