com.myscript.iink.text

Class Text

java.lang.Object

com.myscript.iink.text.Text

public class Text
extends java.lang.Object

Allows to access the glyphs (i.e. grapheme clusters) within a label.

Note: what is called glyph here, is actually a grapheme cluster. For more details refer to http://unicode.org/reports/tr29/

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
int	getGlyphBeginAt(int index) Returns the starting position in the label, in bytes, of a given glyph.
int	getGlyphCount() Returns the number of glyphs associated with this text.
int	getGlyphCount(int beginIndex, int endIndex) Returns the number of glyphs included in span of two index of bytes in this text
int	getGlyphEndAt(int index) Returns the end position in the label, in bytes, of a given glyph.
java.lang.String	getGlyphLabelAt(int index) Returns the label of the glyph at a given index.
java.lang.String	getLabel() Returns the label of this text.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Method Detail

getLabel

public final java.lang.String getLabel()

Returns the label of this text.

Returns:

the label of this text.

getGlyphCount

public final int getGlyphCount()

Returns the number of glyphs associated with this text.

Returns:

the number of glyphs in this text.

getGlyphCount

public final int getGlyphCount(int beginIndex,
                               int endIndex)

Returns the number of glyphs included in span of two index of bytes in this text

Parameters:

beginIndex - the index of the first byte

endIndex - the index of the last byte (included)

Returns:

the number of glyphs

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - when the indexes are not valid.

getGlyphBeginAt

public final int getGlyphBeginAt(int index)

Returns the starting position in the label, in bytes, of a given glyph.

Parameters:

index - the index of the glyph to retrieve, in glyph count.

Returns:

the starting position on the glyph in the label, in bytes.

Throws:

java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException - when index is invalid.

getGlyphEndAt

public final int getGlyphEndAt(int index)

Returns the end position in the label, in bytes, of a given glyph.

Parameters:

index - the index of the glyph to retrieve, in glyph count.

Returns:

the starting position on the glyph in the label, in bytes.

Throws:

java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException - when index is invalid.

getGlyphLabelAt

public final java.lang.String getGlyphLabelAt(int index)

Returns the label of the glyph at a given index.

Parameters:

index - the index of the glyph to retrieve, in glyph count.

Returns:

the label of the glyph at index.

Throws:

java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException - when index is invalid.