Thanks a lot. You are right. The x,y for text is lower left. On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 12:14 AM, SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com < [email protected]> wrote:
> I don't recall the exact details in Android, but in almost all graphics > APIs the Y position for text is either the [baseline] (bottom of a letter > 'o' or 'n') or [baseline + descent] (bottom of the letter 'g' or 'y'). In > other words, (x,y) for bitmaps is top-left, (x,y) for text is lower left. > > A quick experiment would tell you whether it's the baseline or baseline + > descent. > > On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Stanley Li <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I want to draw a text on top of a bitmap. >> >> So in my onDraw function, i do the following: >> >> canvas.drawBitmap(myBitmap, 30, 30, mPaint); >> textPaint.setTextSize(20); >> canvas.drawText("Life X 3", 30, 30, textPaint); >> >> However, it ended up that the text is above the bitmap. (the X position is >> correct, but the y position is not). >> >> Can anyone help me with this? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Stanley >> >> -- >> 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]<android-developers%[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 post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<android-developers%[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 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 To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
