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Foil 90 The java.awt.Font and FontMetrics Classes

From CRPC Lectures on Java Language Applets Graphics CRPC Annual Meeting Tutorial -- May 14,1996. by Geoffrey C. Fox


Graphicsinstance.setFont(particularFont) will set the current Font in the instance Graphicsinstance of graphics class to the value particularFont of class Font. There are several other such Font related methods in the Graphics class
The class Font has an important constructor used as in
Font particularFont = new Font("TimesRoman",Font.PLAIN,36);
where one can use Courier Helvetica etc. instead of Time Roman
Font.PLAIN, Font.BOLD, Font.ITALIC are possible text styles
FontMetrics fm = getFontMetrics(particularFont); // allows one to find out about the font
fm.stringWidth("text"); // returns pixel width of string "text"
fm.getHeight(); // returns total height of one line of Font



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