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From: Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid>
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Subject: Re: When resizing text to fill a JLabel the text sometimes "jiggles", how do I fix this?
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 12:08:19 -0000 (UTC)
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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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