You can create a custom singleLine TextView and animate it by creating a loop and calling scrollBy(x,y) incrementing/decrementing the x value.
-Zach On Thursday 29 January 2009 7:47:49 pm Rodrigo wrote: > HI, > > What is the best way to implement scrolling text (with behavior > similar to that of HTML tag 'marquee')?? > > I've been trying to do this using TextViews + Animations but I'm > having troubles primarily because of sizing issues. If my text is long > enough that it exceeds the screen width, it won't be drawn completely > (it's size will be chopped at screen width). Thus, when I animate it > from right to left, only a part of the text will be displayed. This > happens if I allow a maximum of 1 line in my TextView, because > otherwise it makes the TextView have multiple lines. If I make it > horizontally scrollable, the same 'chopped-off' behavior is seen. > > I think this happens because the TextView's parent imposes some > restrictions on its size. Is there a way to bypass these restrictions > so that the TextView is 'drawn' even if parts of it will be off- > screen? > > If that's not possible, what's an alternative way of implementing this > behavior? > > Thanks! > -- Zach Hobbs HelloAndroid.com Android OS news, tutorials, downloads --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
