Expose baseline information in the Sky API.

sky/examples/raw/baseline.dart

+// Copyright 2015 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
+// found in the LICENSE file.
+
+import 'dart:sky' as sky;
+
+void drawText(sky.Canvas canvas, String lh) {
+  sky.Paint paint = new sky.Paint();
+
+  // offset down
+  canvas.translate(0.0, 100.0);
+
+  // set up the text
+  sky.Document document = new sky.Document();
+  sky.Text arabic = document.createText("مرحبا");
+  sky.Text english = document.createText(" Hello");
+  sky.Element block = document.createElement('div');
+  block.style['display'] = 'paragraph';
+  block.style['font-family'] = 'serif';
+  block.style['font-size'] = '50px';
+  block.style['line-height'] = lh;
+  block.style['color'] = '#0000A0';
+  block.appendChild(arabic);
+  block.appendChild(english);
+  sky.LayoutRoot layoutRoot = new sky.LayoutRoot();
+  layoutRoot.rootElement = block;
+  layoutRoot.maxWidth = sky.view.width - 20.0; // you need to set a width for this to paint
+  layoutRoot.layout();
+
+  // draw a line at the text's baseline
+  sky.Path path = new sky.Path();
+  path.moveTo(0.0, 0.0);
+  path.lineTo(block.maxContentWidth, 0.0);
+  path.moveTo(0.0, block.alphabeticBaseline);
+  path.lineTo(block.maxContentWidth, block.alphabeticBaseline);
+  path.moveTo(0.0, block.height);
+  path.lineTo(block.maxContentWidth, block.height);
+  paint.color = const sky.Color(0xFFFF9000);
+  paint.setStyle(sky.PaintingStyle.stroke);
+  paint.strokeWidth = 3.0;
+  canvas.drawPath(path, paint);  
+
+  // paint the text
+  layoutRoot.paint(canvas);
+}
+
+void main() {
+  // prepare the rendering
+  sky.PictureRecorder canvas = new sky.PictureRecorder(sky.view.width, sky.view.height);
+
+  // background
+  sky.Paint paint = new sky.Paint();
+  paint.color = const sky.Color(0xFFFFFFFF);
+  paint.setStyle(sky.PaintingStyle.fill);
+  canvas.drawRect(new sky.Rect.fromLTRB(0.0, 0.0, sky.view.width, sky.view.height), paint);
+
+  canvas.translate(10.0, 0.0);
+  drawText(canvas, '1.0');
+  drawText(canvas, 'lh');
+
+  // put it on the screen
+  sky.view.picture = canvas.endRecording();
+  sky.view.scheduleFrame();
+}