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| From | Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Re: When resizing text to fill a JLabel the text sometimes "jiggles", how do I fix this? |
| Date | 2016-12-12 12:08 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
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On Fri, 09 Dec 2016 21:22:17 +0000, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> When I've needed to do something like this, my outermost GUI container
> (a JPanel) has been sized to fit the screen (size expressed in pixels).
> All labels, Text areas, etc are auto-scaled to match by expressing their
> sizes as percentages of the outermost container and the font scaled to
> match: during initialisation I construct a font with that size and use
> it everywhere, the benefit being that I don't need to resize and fonts
> after the program has been initialised.
>
> Modified Font construction is easy:
>
> import java.awt.Font;
>
> public class MyFont extends Font {
> private int fontsize; /* in pts */
>
> public EditFont(int fontsize)
> {
> super("Monospaced", PLAIN, fontsize);
> this.fontsize = fontsize;
> }
> }
>
> ...and add any other methods you need in order to size a JLabel, etc, to
> contain a given string.
Faulty editing (my bad): replace EditFont with MyFont.
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martin@ | Martin Gregorie
gregorie. | Essex, UK
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