hey guys i wonder how i could runtime retrieve the font of some layout label.
something like:
View.findDrawableById("label_id").getFont();
View.findDrawableById("label_id").mFont;
View.findDrawableById("label_id").font;
View.findDrawableById("label_id")[:mFont];
i yearn that so i can define a clipping area as function of label dimensions.
there must be any better pratice i guess. what do you say?
What you can do is not use layouts but use direct dc calls. You'll know the font, and with that you can get the font height, the width of the string in pixels, and can therefore set the clip region.…
The thing you'll find and this not only varies by both font and device, is that with some fonts, there is white space at the top and bottom. FONT_NUMBER_* seem to be the most impacted. Here's one of…
The thing you'll find and this not only varies by both font and device, is that with some fonts, there is white space at the top and bottom. FONT_NUMBER_* seem to be the most impacted. Here's one of my test apps that will shows things on a 945:
and fenix5:
No white space on the f5.
