B4J Question Wrap Text without Breaking the Words

[xulihang]

I am using TextFlow as a text engine to render text into images. I am having a problem that if I enable text wrapping and its width is not enough, it will break words. I wonder if there is a way to avoid breaking the words.

If this is not possible, then I may have to create my own text engine.

BCTextEngine seems a good alternative as well.

 

[xulihang]

My test project.

 

[kimstudio]

I can't believe the native text wrap func will break the words, maybe because the rendering area is too small for one single word, try to enlarge the rendering area and see?

 

[xulihang]

I think there is a workaround. I can measure the longest word's length and make it as the minimum width for the TextFlow.

Dim c As B4XCanvas
c.Initialize(MainForm.RootPane)
Dim minWidth As Int = Ceil(c.MeasureText("together ",fx.DefaultFont(15)).Width)

 

[xulihang]

Controls like TextArea also have this problem.

 

[Brian Dean]

What behaviour would you prefer? I cannot think of an alternative that would not, in some circumstances, bring equal disadvantages.

 

[xulihang]

What behaviour would you prefer? I cannot think of an alternative that would not, in some circumstances, bring equal disadvantages.

TextArea having this behavior is fine.

But in my case, I need to use TextFlow to render text for manga translation and it is not good to break the words.

 

[Brian Dean]

Okay - I can understand that you have a problem, but I felt that you were being too hard on the view designer. I think that it is reasonable to expect the view designer to optimise for 99% of the usage cases and allow us to sort out our own special cases when they occur, as you have done. I can see situations where a different solution might be preferred.