Question

I’m having an issue using the canvas.drawText() method.

I have a custom view, as follows:

public class PagerIndicator extends View
{
    @Override
    public void onDraw(Canvas canvas)
    {       
    Paint paint = new Paint();
    paint.setStyle(Paint.Style.FILL);
    paint.setColor(Color.GRAY);
    canvas.drawPaint(paint);

    paint.setColor(Color.WHITE);
    paint.setTextSize(10);
    paint.setAntiAlias(true);
    paint.setTextAlign(Align.LEFT);
    canvas.drawText("TEST", 0, 0, paint);
}

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<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<ysi.crm.PagerIndicator
    android:id="@+id/swipe_page_indicator"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
</LinearLayout>

The drawPaint() method is working, I can see the gray paint when I test. However, canvas.drawText() is not drawing. I see no text on top of the gray.

I’ve beat this thing to death, I could find no one else who’s had this problem, much less a solution. I would be very grateful for any help.

Answer 1

I ran into this before. The coordinate that you set it to draw with is not the top left coordinate of the text. It is the bottom left coordinate of the text.

Because of this, your text is probably being drawn above the top of your view.