2d String in a Box

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mainpayne - 20 Nov 2003 12:53 GMT

Hi,

I want to draw a string of varying size inside a box.

g.drawString("........string....", x, y)
g.drawBox(x, y, w, h);

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|String| h

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w

Is there a good way to calculate the size of the box?

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Antti S. Brax - 20 Nov 2003 13:38 GMT

d97-akj@nada.kth.se wrote in comp.lang.java.gui:

> I want to draw a string of varying size inside a box.

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> Is there a good way to calculate the size of the box?

    Look at the API documentation of Graphics class for methods
    that have something to do with Fonts. Then look at the API
    documentation of the classes that those methods return.

    You should be able to find the answer yourself in about 5
    minutes.

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Roedy Green - 20 Nov 2003 20:16 GMT

>Is there a good way to calculate the size of the box?

see FontMetrics

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Antti S. Brax - 21 Nov 2003 07:40 GMT

roedy@seewebsite.com wrote in comp.lang.java.gui:

>>Is there a good way to calculate the size of the box?
>
> see FontMetrics

    The bounding box returned by FontMetrics doesn't always contain
    accents and such. TextLayout OTOH guarantees that the bounding
    box it returns contains all the pixels in the text.

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