On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 7:09 AM, Xiongzh <[email protected]> wrote:
> Say, my font size of the text in TextView is 20.5px. > It doesn't mean that every character of the text occupies 20.5px in > the screen, does it? > certainly not, the "text size" is only a notional unit. the actual number of pixels covered by the text depend on the font design itself. For example, try writing a document in a word processor that uses the same words with three different fonts (e.g. Arial, Times New Roman and Courier New), and see how each letter has a different height, even if they use the same font size. > > I'm inheriting android.widget.TextView to implement a TextView which > text can be scrolled automatically. Just as the behavior of the HTML > <marquee/>. > > I need to know the actual pixels the text occupied to determine how > far I shall scroll the text. > However the getTextSize() * getText().length() is much longer than the > actual length of the text, so I can't make the text re-displayed on > time. > > Thank you in advance for helping me. > > BR > xion...@beijing, China > > [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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
