de.enough.polish.ui.texteffects
Class LighthouseTextEffect

java.lang.Object
  de.enough.polish.ui.TextEffect
      de.enough.polish.ui.texteffects.LighthouseTextEffect

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable

public class LighthouseTextEffect
extends TextEffect

Colorizes each character and its neighbouring characters.

Activate the shadow text effect by specifying text-effect: lighthouse; in your polish.css file. You can finetune the effect with following attributes:

• text-lighthouse-mode: Sets the mode of the lighthouse font-effect, default is "back-and-forth", other possible modes are left-to-right, right-to-left, back-and-forth-once, left-to-right-once and right-to-left-once.
• text-lighthouse-color: Sets the main color of the lighthouse font-effect.
• text-lighthouse-neighbor-color: Sets the color for characters next to the currently main character in the lighthouse font-effect.

Copyright (c) Enough Software 2005 - 2008

 history
        16-Nov-2005 - rob creation
 

Author:

Robert Virkus, j2mepolish@enough.de

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class de.enough.polish.ui.TextEffect

style

Constructor Summary

LighthouseTextEffect()
Creates a new type writer effect.

Method Summary

boolean	animate() Animates this effect.
void	drawString(java.lang.String text, int textColor, int x, int y, int orientation, javax.microedition.lcdui.Graphics g) Paints the text and applies the text effect.
void	hideNotify() Notifies this effect that the corresponding item is to be hidden.
void	setStyle(Style style) Sets the style of this item.

Methods inherited from class de.enough.polish.ui.TextEffect

animate, drawStrings, getFont, getFontHeight, getLeftX, getRgbData, getRgbData, getRgbData, getTopY, getTopY, releaseResources, showNotify, stringWidth, wrap

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

LighthouseTextEffect

public LighthouseTextEffect()

Creates a new type writer effect.

Method Detail

animate

public boolean animate()

Description copied from class: TextEffect

Animates this effect. Subclasses can override this method to create animations.

Overrides:

animate in class TextEffect

Returns:

true when this effect has been animated.

hideNotify

public void hideNotify()

Description copied from class: TextEffect

Notifies this effect that the corresponding item is to be hidden. The default implementation is empty.

Overrides:

hideNotify in class TextEffect

drawString

public void drawString(java.lang.String text,
                       int textColor,
                       int x,
                       int y,
                       int orientation,
                       javax.microedition.lcdui.Graphics g)

Description copied from class: TextEffect

Paints the text and applies the text effect.

Specified by:

drawString in class TextEffect

Parameters:

text - the text

textColor - the color of the text

x - x coordinate

y - y coordinate

orientation - the orientation, e.g. Graphics.TOP | Graphics.LEFT or Graphics.TOP | Graphics.HCENTER

g - the graphics context

setStyle

public void setStyle(Style style)

Description copied from class: TextEffect

Sets the style of this item. Subclasses can override this method for getting specific settings.

Overrides:

setStyle in class TextEffect

Parameters:

style - the new style for this item.