I want to make some calculations for dynamic text localion based on the screen size and other elements.
I use dc.getTextDimensions() and dc.getTextWidthInPixels(). It works fine for me with standard fonts like Graphics.FONT_XTINY, etc. Also, I want to use layout.xml like this
<label id="my_label" x="20%" y="60" font="#RobotoCondensedBold:25"/>
My problem: On Fenix 8 with 454x454 resolution the standard fonts are too small or too large, and I want a custom font size, but I do not want to make custom fonts.
In layout.xml I can define fonts like this font="#RobotoCondensedBold:25" and it works fine. I can make any font size.
The problem comes when I want to use dc.getTextDimensions() and dc.getTextWidthInPixels() with font="#RobotoCondensedBold:25". Second argument for dc.getTextDimensions() and dc.getTextWidthInPixels() is Graphics.FontType. If I start reading documentation about that FontType, it says it is one of these 4:
FontType as WatchUi.FontResource or Graphics.FontDefinition or Graphics.FontReference or Graphics.VectorFont. and I cannot just pass "#RobotoCondensedBold:25". It has to be one of these objects. When I get a label like this
var myLabelView = View.findDrawableById("my_label") as Text;then I can do myLabelView.width and height and it works ok, but only for static fixed labels. If I change the text, then I still get value for text from xml, not for the text which I set. This is why I would like to ask a few questions.
- If I define font like this font="#RobotoCondensedBold:25", how can I pass it to dc.getTextDimensions()?
- Is it good idea in general to use font="#RobotoCondensedBold:25" or there is a better way to scale standard fonts? I see that Graphics has getVectorFont(options as Graphics.VectorFontOptions) method and VectorFontOptions has scale parameter.