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Java Forum / GUI / November 20033D text in JButton
Hi, I have a problem. How to have 3D text in JButton. Text could be in a various fonts. Any help appreciated.... Jakov > How to have 3D text in JButton. Text could be in a various fonts. > Any help appreciated.... If we ignore for a moment the fact that this looks ugly, you would have to do it yourself. There is no support in J2SE. The simplest would maybe be to license some 3D TrueType font and just use that one like any other font on the JButton. /Thomas > > How to have 3D text in JButton. Text could be in a various fonts. > > Any help appreciated.... [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > The simplest would maybe be to license some 3D TrueType font and just > use that one like any other font on the JButton. ....or to override JButton's paintComponent method. Thiss assumes writing your own class which extends jbutton. > /Thomas > ....or to override JButton's paintComponent method. Thiss assumes writing > your own class which extends jbutton. I thought about suggesting this, and also suggesting to use an icon. But I couldn't think of a good method to extrude a 2D font on the fly to a 3D object, and then rendering it on a 2D surface in Java: You don't get the font vector data from the Java font system, so you would have to extrude from rendered text. This would require some processing and won't give you great results. Or you would have to write a parser for the font data so you get the vector data. Or you would have to embedd some font data into the Java program directly. And/or you embedd a 3D font renderer into the application, which uses some 3D font data. Non of this sounds too great to me. IMHO the simplest is to use an existing TT font with a 3D look. /Thomas > > ....or to override JButton's paintComponent method. Thiss assumes writing > > your own class which extends jbutton. [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > IMHO the simplest is to use an existing TT font with a 3D look. Do as Igor suggested, and take a look at http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/2000/04/java/ There is a section named 3D Text there. You may want to draw to a memory image first, and blit it to the screen when necessary. Roald > > > How to have 3D text in JButton. Text could be in a various fonts. > > > Any help appreciated.... [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > The simplest would maybe be to license some 3D TrueType font and just > > use that one like any other font on the JButton. > ....or to override JButton's paintComponent method. Thiss assumes writing > your own class which extends jbutton. I did it this way. It looks good, In Metal and Motif L&F it reacts good. But in Windows there is a small problem. When button is pressed, text is moved one pixel down and one pixel right(It doesn't occur in Metal or Motif L&F). Should make custom class which implements ButtonUI for drawing, for doing rendering when button pressed, otherwise it is OK... Jakov > > /Thomas Free MagazinesGet these publications absolutely FREE for up to 12 months. There are no hidden fees and no obligation. Simply choose a title, complete the application form and submit it. Read more ...
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