How to use Font class in java?

[Bottlenecked]

Hi All,

I am beginner to the java programming language, with lots of confusion about the java concept. The advanced java concepts seems very tough to understand as compare to core java. In one of my project I have to make use of font class. But unfortunately I know nothing about this Font class. I wonder if anyone of you let me know something about the Font class of java language with a suitable java code example. I would really appreciate your help over Font class.

[MindSpace]

The Font class represents fonts, which are used to render text in a visible way. A font provides the information needed to map sequences of characters to sequences of glyphs and to render sequences of glyphs on Graphics and Component objects. A character is a symbol that represents an item such as a letter, a digit, or punctuation in an abstract way. A glyph is a shape used to render a character or a sequence of characters. In simple writing systems, such as Latin, typically one glyph represents one character. In general, however, characters and glyphs do not have one-to-one correspondence.

[Modifier]

I suggest you to refer following methods of Font class of java:

• getStringBounds(String strg, int beginIndx, int limit, FontRenderContext frcn)
• getStringBounds(String strg, FontRenderContext frcn)
• getStringBounds(CharacterIterator cir, int beginIndx, int limit1, FontRenderContext frcn)
• getStringBounds(char[] chars, int beginIndx, int limit1, FontRenderContext frcn)
• getLineMetrics(String strg, int beginIndx, int limit1, FontRenderContext frcn)

[Praetor]

Hi friend,

Below I have given example of font class, which will give you something idea about the font class:

import java.awt.Font;
import java.awt.Graphics;

public class FontDemo extends JApplet {
  public void init() {
    FontPanel fontPanel01 = new FontPanel();
    getContentPane().add(fontPanel01, BorderLayout.CENTER);
  }

  public static void main(String[] arpgs) {
    FontPanel starPanel = new FontPanel();

    JFrame f1 = new JFrame("Font");
    f1.addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter() {
      public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e) {
        System.exit(0);
      }
    };

    f1.getContentPane().add(starPanel, BorderLayout.CENTER);
    f1.setSize(new Dimension(500, 200));
    f1.setVisible(true);
  }
}

[Katty]

Please go through the following constructors of Font class:

1. Font(String StrName, int style1, int sizeOfFont)
2. Font(Map attributes1)
3. equals(Object obj1)
4. getFontName(Locale lc1)
5. getFont(Map attributes1)

[kelfro]

Example of Font class:

import java.awt.Font;
import java.awt.FNLont.GlyphVector;

public class FontSample extends JPanel
{
    public void paint(Graphics g) {
        Graphics2D g02 = (Graphics2D)g;

        g02.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING,
            RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON);
        
        String s = "Java Source and Support";
        Font FNLont = new Font("SeriFNL", Font.PLAIN, 24);
        FontRenderContext FNLrc = g02.getFontRenderContext();

        GlyphVector gv1 = FNLont.createGlyphVector(FNLrc, s);
        g02.drawGlyphVector(gv1, 40, 60);
      }

  public static void main(String[] arwgs) {
    JFrame FNL = new JFrame();
    FNL.getContentPane().add(new SimpleFont());
    FNL.setSize(300, 250);
    FNL.show();
  }
}