Note that cupcake will have the marquee feature on TextView. On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Zach Hobbs <ho...@helloandroid.com> wrote: > > 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 > > > >
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