Subclass of TextView and text color

I'm trying to implement a subclass of TextView that prints the text vertically rotated, but I'm having troubles printing the text in the color I specify from an XML layout. The class code is:

import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.Canvas;
import android.graphics.Rect;
import android.text.TextPaint;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class VerticalTextView extends TextView {
    private Rect bounds = new Rect();
    private TextPaint textPaint;

    public VerticalTextView(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }

    public VerticalTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) {
        textPaint = getPaint();
        textPaint.getTextBounds((String) getText(), 0, getText().length(), bounds);
        setMeasuredDimension((int) (bounds.height() + textPaint.descent()), bounds.width());
    }

    @Override
    protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
        canvas.rotate(-90, bounds.width(), 0);
        canvas.drawText((String) getText(), 0, -bounds.width() + bounds.height(), textPaint);
    }
}

I have no need of custom properties for this view, so I'm not declaring a styleable for it.

I'm using this view in my activity by this layout:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent">

    <com.verticaltextview.VerticalTextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Hello World" android:textColor="#ff0000ff"
        android:textStyle="italic" />
</LinearLayout>

As you can see, I'm spe开发者_开发百科cifying both the text color (blue) and the text style (italic), but only the style is applied, as the text is printed in black. If in the onDraw() method I hardcode a color by doing textPaint.setColor(0xff00ff00), then the text is correctly printed in color.

Suggestions? Thanks ;)

You will have to change the constructors of your VerticalTextView to the following:

private int         col     = 0xFFFFFFFF;

public VerticalTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs)
{
    super(context, attrs); // was missing a parent
    col = getCurrentTextColor();
}

Then add

textPaint.setColor(col);  

to your onDraw() function.

Hope this helps.

i think you can get color in:

**public VerticalTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
    super(context, attrs);
}**

then set this color to textPaint.