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Foil 7 The java.awt.Font and FontMetrics Class

From Java Tutorial, July 1, 1996 CSC499(JSU) CPS406/606 -- Fall Semester 97. by Nancy J. McCracken,Geoffrey C. Fox
FontMetrics example for Foil 7
1 Graphicsinstance.setFont(particularFont) will set the current Font in the instance Graphicsinstance of the Graphics class to the value particularFont of class Font.
2 The class Font has an important constructor used as in
3 Font MyFont = new Font("TimesRoman", Font.PLAIN ,36);
  • where one can also use Courier, Helvetica, ZapfDingbats, . . ., Monospaced, Serif, SansSerif, Dialog
  • Font.PLAIN, Font.BOLD, Font.ITALIC are possible text styles
4 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 highest Font character
  • getAscent(),
  • getDescent(),
  • getLeading(),
  • getMaxAscent(),
  • getMaxDescent()
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