How to paint a text field to the screen

Question

I'm building a crossword game. Ideally, I would like to use similar functionality like the code below. However, I just need help figuring out how to draw a textfield on the screen so the user can input his/her words. Here's the code I have so far. How would I modify this code to draw a textfield instead of paint? Appreciate any help.

public class Word extends View {
    private Paint paint = new Paint();
      private Path path = new Path();

      public Word(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);



        paint.setAntiAlias(true);
        paint.setStrokeWidth(30f);
        paint.setColor(Color.GRAY);
        paint.setStyle(Paint.Style.STROKE);
        paint.setStrokeJoin(Paint.Join.ROUND);
      }


      @Override
      protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
        canvas.drawPath(path, paint);
      }

      @Override
      public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
        float eventX = event.getX();
        float eventY = event.getY();

        switch (event.getAction()) {
        case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN:
          path.moveTo(eventX, eventY);
          return true;
        case MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE:
          path.lineTo(eventX, eventY);
          break;
        case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP:

          break;
        default:
          return false;
        }

        // Schedules a repaint.
        invalidate();
        return true;
      }

Google: 'android paint text' let me to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2655402/android-canvas-drawtext — cYrixmorten, Nov 03 '13 at 01:14

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 03 '13 at 12:45

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Use a TextView in addition to your "Word" view, and set its visibility to GONE, until you need it to show, then set it to VISIBLE when you want it.

answered Nov 03 '13 at 12:45

Bob

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Yea that's a good idea. However, I'm trying to figure how to pass a textfield object into the .drawPath method. Any suggestions? – wyguy321 Nov 04 '13 at 03:56
You can draw pretty much whatever you want to a canvas, however that is all you can do with it, you can't draw a View into a canvas, you can draw something that looks like a view, but it will just be like a picture of the view, it will not be functional unless you also implement all of it's functionality yourself. – Bob Nov 04 '13 at 09:00

How to paint a text field to the screen

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