android canvas.drawText in custom view

Question

I have a custom view in which i want to drawText with these parameters.

int stopY = 500;

// ...

Log.info("Drawing line " + line + " at " + String.valueOf(stopY));
canvas.drawText(line, 40, stopY, Paint);

i am having a array of text and i am drawing

 for (int i = startLineNumber; i < (startLineNumber + linesVisible); i++, screenDisplayLine++)
        {
            if (i >= totalLines)
            {
                break;
            }
            int startY = (int) (i*lineSpacing + (screenDisplayLine * lineSpacing));
            int stopY = startY + lineSpacing;
       canvas.drawText(line, 40, stopY, Paint);//stop y increments by 20 every time i use 
    }

it works in straightly but when i needs startnumber as 50

that mean

 stopy = stopY+(linenumber*20)//(stopY + (50 * 20))

but it fails in this case

any help

I can see the correct values in the log through LogCat, but the text is not drawn. Can anyone help me out?

Answer 1

Thanks to both of your answers; with that I figured out the answer

int stopY = 500;

scrollTo(0,stopY);
canvas.drawText(line, 0, stopY, Paint);

This works fine. As you said it goes to out-off screen size I used

scrollTo(0,stopY);

So that it scrolls to that point in the screen and when I used

canvas.drawText(line, 0, stopY, Paint);

It has drawn it there without any problem.