Carl, that's brilliant. The XML can be adapted to use bars and blocks as I described earlier, then overlayed with text boxes and hey presto!
On Sep 28, 4:39 pm, Carl Whalley <carl.whal...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I just put a tutorial up on making tiles scale correctly. Its not > exactly what you are doing but theres enough overlap to get you > going.http://www.androidacademy.com/3-tutorials/43-hands-on/154-device-inde... > > --http://www.androidacademy.com > > On Sep 28, 1:05 pm, Kwan Toh Choong <td00164...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > Thanks for the advice from everyone. I've done a little bit of research, but > > I m not sure the idea of rendering the boxes with numbering is correct or > > not. > > Is it true that I can draw on a canvas? I m reading this > > tutorialhttp://www.anddev.org/the_pizza_timer_-_threading-drawing_on_canvas-t... > > > It seems like after I draw a box, I can still draw on the same place, > > overlapping it. So I can do something like "drawing" the numbers on top of > > the boxes right? > > > In face I'm not doing acrossword. It looks similar tocrosswordbut it is > > called CodeCracker instead. I did a google on "CodeCracker" but the result > > it returns are mostly something else. Here are a few link on the > > "CodeCracker" I m saying: > > >http://www.codecracker.co.nz/samples/samples.htmhttp://www.puzzco.com...... > > > Regards > > Kwan > > > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Seth Mould <sethmo...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > Hi Kwan, > > > > I have a project on SourceForge called xW which seeks to establish a > > > standard XML format for word puzzles, so you might want to look at > > > that for your input. Try looking for open Sudoku projects -- there is > > > more interest in Sudoku than crosswords and the rendering of cells is > > > the same except for numbering. > > > > Please remember that advanced UK crosswords use bars instead of black > > > squares, so a typical bitwise enumeration for the cell's appearance > > > will be 0 - Blank, 1 - Black, 2 - Left bar, 4 - Top bar. > > > > I haven't got round to writing a generic renderer for Android but when > > > I do it will be Open. Regards Seth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
