[kotman]

Hiberry
i have a question about the orientation of drawing text in blackberry,
is there a methode to draw a text from right to left?
i tried with this :

g.drawText("draw me from R to L", 100,100,Graphics.TOP|Graphics.RIGHT);
g.drawText("draw me from R to L", 100,100,Graphics.TOP|Graphics.LEFT);

but the result is always from left to right

please help

[Dougsg38p]

Right - this is expected. What you are doing there is setting the drawing anchor point.

I'm not sure what you are trying to accomplish. Are you trying to actually draw the text backwards, or mirrored?

How about just reversing the characters in the string?

[kotman]

thanks for reply
what i want to do is to force the orientation of the drawing to be from right to left so if i give x = 200 i want to have my text in the left side of this coordonate
i hope u r understinding me here

[Dougsg38p]

You mean you want the text right-justified, rather than right-justified?

|Left justified_______|
|______Right justified|

[kotman]

yes this is what i want
how to do it ?

[Dougsg38p]

That depends on the situation.

If you are trying to right-justify text within a text field of a certain extent, then I think you were on the right track. The extent of the field must be set larger that the text in order for you to notice the difference between the left /right anchor points.

Example:

If you don't set the extent:

|draw me from l to r|
|draw me from r to l|

You will not see the difference, right?


|draw me from l to r_______|
|_______draw me from r to l|