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Re: FontMetrics and Fonts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Ewing)
Fri Mar 29 13:42:48 1996
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 14:37:20 +1100
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From: Greg Ewing <grege@OPTIMATION.COM.AU>
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> From NewsGroup_comp-lang-java Thu Mar 21 08:38 EST 1996
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> >From: "Lawrence J. Karnowski" <karnowsk@cs.utk.edu>
> Subject: FontMetrics and Fonts
> Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 12:44:11 -0500
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> Why is FontMetrics abstract? I glanced at the source code and
> everything looks at least semi-workable. The only problem is that in
> the class declaration it is declared as abstract. Why? I know that the
> methods in the base class are weak but they would work fine for my
> purposes. Maybe I'm going about this one wrong. How is everyone else
> figuring out how much space a certain string in a certain font would
> take up without using FontMetrics? Has anyone tried? Thanks for your
> help.
>
> Lawrence J. Karnowski
Lawrence,
You have to get your FontMetrics object from a component
e.g. FontMetrics fm = aComponent.getFontMetrics();
Safest to do this from within aComponent.paint() because it doesn't exist
until exposed (displayed) the first time.
GREG
grege@optimation.com.au
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