com.planeth.common.gfx
Class ScrollingTextImagizer

java.lang.Object
  com.planeth.common.gfx.ScrollingTextImagizer

public class ScrollingTextImagizer

extends java.lang.Object

Buffered Scrolling Textbox
Formats and animates a text within a predefined textBox.
The whole thing is rendered to an image.

Author:

Andreas Grässer, gal@planet-h.com.
created 14.11.2005

Constructor Summary

ScrollingTextImagizer(java.util.List stringList, java.awt.Font font, int width, int height)
Constructor for ScrollingTextImagizer.

Method Summary

Vector2D	getSize() Returns the size of the rendered image
java.awt.Image	renderImage() Returns the text formatted as a rendered image

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

ScrollingTextImagizer

public ScrollingTextImagizer(java.util.List stringList,
                             java.awt.Font font,
                             int width,
                             int height)

Constructor for ScrollingTextImagizer.

Parameters:

stringList - List with String items (each element is a row)

font - the font for the scrolling text

width - width of the generated image

height - height of the generated image

Method Detail

renderImage

public java.awt.Image renderImage()

Returns the text formatted as a rendered image

Returns:

the rendered image

getSize

public Vector2D getSize()

Returns the size of the rendered image

Returns:

Returns the size.