It's pretty easy. If you want the text to break, use the MeasureSpec AT_MOST X px for the width (where X is the maximum width in pixels you want your texture to be) and UNSPECIFIED 0 px for the height.
On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Latimerius <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > > -- 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.
