Text width

[Oskar Sigvardsson]

Hello,

I need to know how to get get the width of a string without having a
java.awt.Graphi cs around (otherwise i'd just
graphics.getFon tMetrics().stri ngWidth("Hello I'm a string") )

The thing is that I have I function that returns an Image with the
text, and I want to create the Image inside the function. The size of
the Image is determined by how big the text is, but to get the size of
the text I need to have an Image, and to get the Image I need to know
the size of the text. So I'm in a catch-22 hell and I don't know how
to get out (I suppose I could create a temporary Image and use that
for determining the size and then discard it and create another Image
with the correct size but there has to be a better way.)

Any help appriciated
Oskar Sigvardsson

[Chris]

Re: Text width

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Oskar Sigvardsson wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> I need to know how to get get the width of a string without having a
> java.awt.Graphi cs around (otherwise i'd just
> graphics.getFon tMetrics().stri ngWidth("Hello I'm a string") )
>
> The thing is that I have I function that returns an Image with the
> text, and I want to create the Image inside the function. The size
> of the Image is determined by how big the text is, but to get the
> size of the text I need to have an Image, and to get the Image I
> need to know the size of the text. So I'm in a catch-22 hell and I
> don't know how to get out (I suppose I could create a temporary
> Image and use that for determining the size and then discard it and
> create another Image with the correct size but there has to be a
> better way.)
>
> Any help appriciated
> Oskar Sigvardsson[/color]

Hi,
I'm really not about to figure out how this works, but a good place to
start looks like java.awt.Font.g etStringBounds( ), with an
appropriately prepared FontRenderConte xt designed to simulate the
Image you'll eventually be creating. That'll give you the size you
need.

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Chris
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