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kaydee253
Posts: 5
Registered: 12-12-2009
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Displaying mathematical equations in App

I am a newbie here. Is there a way to display mathematical equations (including the integral sign, fractions, square root etc) in Blackberry. What is the best way to do this?

 

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MSohm
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Re: Displaying mathematical equations in App

There are no fields in the BlackBerry API set that have built in support for this.  You would need to draw these symbols manually using the Graphics class.

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ydaraishy
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Registered: 09-30-2009

Re: Displaying mathematical equations in App

The other way you could do this is set up or find a TeX to image renderer (such things do exist), and then make your Blackberry download the required images to display the rendered math symbols.

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kaydee253
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Registered: 12-12-2009

Re: Displaying mathematical equations in App

Thanks.

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