The most reasonable way to render multi-line text, and the most reasonable way to depend on skia

[Evan Zalys]

Say I'm interested in rendering some text that takes up several lines within the confines fixed horizontal-width box. What's the general strategy to do this? Shall I take one word, then measure it (paint.measureText), see if it's within bounds, add another word, and keep on with this until I exceed the horizontal width of the container I wish to fit, and then start over on the next line with the overflowing word (maybe perhaps applying some hyphenation strategy upon overflow?) Is there a better way to do this?

Secondly, I'm interested in what you folks think the most reasonable way to depend on skia as a library is. It doesn't seem to have an install target that dumps a bunch of .a files in /usr/lib or what have you, and I understand the API isn't a stable thing, but I'd still like to incorporate it in my project and I'm not sure what the recommended organizational strategy is here.

Thanks!

Evan

[a.c...@weelya.com]

Hey Evan,

1. Here is what I've personally came up with :

https://gist.github.com/paraboul/bf92481c8c75a2f5f26b

2. I link against skia (every .a I need) statically.

Anthony.

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[Ben Wagner]

Note that Skia has something like this, see views/SkTextBox.cpp . It's
somewhat limited, however. Skia has been trying to avoid the
complexity of text shaping until it can be done correctly.

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[杨继超]

For a small amout of text, SkPaint::breakText is what you need.
For large amount of text, try guess algorithm(first guess a number and then fix it with measureText) or try to use binary divide algorithm.