Hello,
I'm making a game and in the menu I want to display the text in the center of the screen. Is there a way in Java to get/calculate the width of a piece of text in a specified font with specified size and style.
Martijn
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A:
The FontMetrics.stringWidth method does just that -- it will return the width in pixels for a given String.
One can obtain the FontMetrics from a Graphics object by the getFontMetrics method.
For example:
g.setFont(new Font("Serif", Font.BOLD, 24));
int width = g.getFontMetrics().stringWidth("Hello World!");
System.out.println(width);
The result was:
135
coobird
2009-09-09 12:58:59
why is FontMetrics abstract??
Martijn Courteaux
2009-09-09 13:02:56
thanks for the fast help.
Martijn Courteaux
2009-09-09 13:06:03
FontMetrics is abstract because the result depends on the particular graphics object used.
Paul de Vrieze
2009-09-09 13:13:30
A:
Just use a JLabel that is center aligned and the proper layout manager and you don't have to worry about this.
camickr
2009-09-09 19:38:40