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java.awt
Class FontMetrics

java.lang.Object
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All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable

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public abstract class FontMetrics

extends Object

implements Serializable

Safe:

See Also:

Serialized Form

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font

protected Font font

The actual Font from which the font metrics are created. This cannot be null.

See Also:

getFont()

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serialVersionUID

private static final long serialVersionUID

FontMetrics

protected FontMetrics(Font font)

Creates a new FontMetrics object for finding out height and width information about the specified Font and specific character glyphs in that Font.

Parameters:

font - the Font

See Also:

java.awt.Font

getFont

public Font getFont()

Enabled: Gets the Font described by this FontMetrics object.

Returns:

the Font described by this FontMetrics object.

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getLeading

public int getLeading()

Enabled: Determines the standard leading of the Font described by this FontMetrics object. The standard leading, or interline spacing, is the logical amount of space to be reserved between the descent of one line of text and the ascent of the next line. The height metric is calculated to include this extra space.

Returns:

the standard leading of the Font.

See Also:

getHeight(), getAscent(), getDescent()

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getAscent

public int getAscent()

Enabled: Determines the font ascent of the Font described by this FontMetrics object. The font ascent is the distance from the font's baseline to the top of most alphanumeric characters. Some characters in the Font might extend above the font ascent line.

Returns:

the font ascent of the Font.

See Also:

getMaxAscent()

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getDescent

public int getDescent()

Enabled: Determines the font descent of the Font described by this FontMetrics object. The font descent is the distance from the font's baseline to the bottom of most alphanumeric characters with descenders. Some characters in the Font might extend below the font descent line.

Returns:

the font descent of the Font.

See Also:

getMaxDescent()

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getHeight

public int getHeight()

Enabled: Gets the standard height of a line of text in this font. This is the distance between the baseline of adjacent lines of text. It is the sum of the leading + ascent + descent. Due to rounding this may not be the same as getAscent() + getDescent() + getLeading(). There is no guarantee that lines of text spaced at this distance are disjoint; such lines may overlap if some characters overshoot either the standard ascent or the standard descent metric.

Returns:

the standard height of the font.

See Also:

getLeading(), getAscent(), getDescent()

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getMaxAscent

public int getMaxAscent()

Enabled: Determines the maximum ascent of the Font described by this FontMetrics object. No character extends further above the font's baseline than this height.

Returns:

the maximum ascent of any character in the Font.

See Also:

getAscent()

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getMaxDescent

public int getMaxDescent()

Enabled: Determines the maximum descent of the Font described by this FontMetrics object. No character extends further below the font's baseline than this height.

Returns:

the maximum descent of any character in the Font.

See Also:

getDescent()

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getMaxDecent

public int getMaxDecent()

Deprecated. As of JDK version 1.1.1, replaced by getMaxDescent().

Enabled: For backward compatibility only.

Returns:

the maximum descent of any character in the Font.

See Also:

getMaxDescent()

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getMaxAdvance

public int getMaxAdvance()

Enabled: Gets the maximum advance width of any character in this Font. The advance is the distance from the leftmost point to the rightmost point on the string's baseline. The advance of a String is not necessarily the sum of the advances of its characters.

Returns:

the maximum advance width of any character in the Font, or -1 if the maximum advance width is not known.

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charWidth

public int charWidth(int ch)

Enabled: Returns the advance width of the specified character in this Font. The advance is the distance from the leftmost point to the rightmost point on the character's baseline. Note that the advance of a String is not necessarily the sum of the advances of its characters.

Parameters:

ch - the character to be measured

Returns:

the advance width of the specified char in the Font described by this FontMetrics object.

See Also:

charsWidth(char[], int, int), stringWidth(String)

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charWidth

public int charWidth(char ch)

Enabled: Returns the advance width of the specified character in this Font. The advance is the distance from the leftmost point to the rightmost point on the character's baseline. Note that the advance of a String is not necessarily the sum of the advances of its characters.

Parameters:

ch - the character to be measured

Returns:

the advance width of the specified char in the Font described by this FontMetrics object.

See Also:

charsWidth(char[], int, int), stringWidth(String)

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stringWidth

public int stringWidth(String str)

Enabled: Returns the total advance width for showing the specified String in this Font. The advance is the distance from the leftmost point to the rightmost point on the string's baseline.

Note that the total advance width returned from this method does not take into account the rendering context. Therefore, the anti-aliasing and fractional metrics hints can affect the value of the advance. When enabling the anti-aliasing and fractional metrics hints, use getStringBounds(String, Graphics) instead of this method. The advance of a String is not necessarily the sum of the advances of its characters.

Parameters:

str - the String to be measured

Returns:

the advance width of the specified String in the Font described by this FontMetrics.

See Also:

bytesWidth(byte[], int, int), charsWidth(char[], int, int), getStringBounds(String, Graphics)

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charsWidth

public int charsWidth(char[] data,
 int off,
 int len)

Suppressed: Returns the total advance width for showing the specified array of characters in this Font. The advance is the distance from the leftmost point to the rightmost point on the string's baseline. The advance of a String is not necessarily the sum of the advances of its characters. This is equivalent to measuring a String of the characters in the specified range.

Parameters:

data - the array of characters to be measured

off - the start offset of the characters in the array

len - the number of characters to be measured from the array

Returns:

the advance width of the subarray of the specified char array in the font described by this FontMetrics object.

See Also:

charWidth(int), charWidth(char), bytesWidth(byte[], int, int), stringWidth(String)

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bytesWidth

public int bytesWidth(byte[] data,
 int off,
 int len)

Suppressed: Returns the total advance width for showing the specified array of bytes in this Font. The advance is the distance from the leftmost point to the rightmost point on the string's baseline. The advance of a String is not necessarily the sum of the advances of its characters. This is equivalent to measuring a String of the characters in the specified range.

Parameters:

data - the array of bytes to be measured

off - the start offset of the bytes in the array

len - the number of bytes to be measured from the array

Returns:

the advance width of the subarray of the specified byte array in the Font described by this FontMetrics object.

See Also:

charsWidth(char[], int, int), stringWidth(String)

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getWidths

public int[] getWidths()

Suppressed: Gets the advance widths of the first 256 characters in the Font. The advance is the distance from the leftmost point to the rightmost point on the character's baseline. Note that the advance of a String is not necessarily the sum of the advances of its characters.

Returns:

an array storing the advance widths of the characters in the Font described by this FontMetrics object.

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hasUniformLineMetrics

public boolean hasUniformLineMetrics()

Enabled: Checks to see if the Font has uniform line metrics. A composite font may consist of several different fonts to cover various character sets. In such cases, the FontLineMetrics objects are not uniform. Different fonts may have a different ascent, descent, metrics and so on. This information is sometimes necessary for line measuring and line breaking.

Returns:

true if the font has uniform line metrics; false otherwise.

See Also:

java.awt.Font#hasUniformLineMetrics()

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getLineMetrics

public java.awt.font.LineMetrics getLineMetrics(String str,
 Graphics context)

Enabled: Returns the LineMetrics object for the specified String in the specified Graphics context.

Parameters:

str - the specified String

context - the specified Graphics context

Returns:

a LineMetrics object created with the specified String and Graphics context.

See Also:

java.awt.Font#getLineMetrics(String, FontRenderContext)

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getLineMetrics

public java.awt.font.LineMetrics getLineMetrics(String str,
 int beginIndex,
 int limit,
 Graphics context)

Enabled: Returns the LineMetrics object for the specified String in the specified Graphics context.

Parameters:

str - the specified String

beginIndex - the initial offset of str

limit - the length of str

context - the specified Graphics context

Returns:

a LineMetrics object created with the specified String and Graphics context.

See Also:

java.awt.Font#getLineMetrics(String, int, int, FontRenderContext)

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getLineMetrics

public java.awt.font.LineMetrics getLineMetrics(char[] chars,
 int beginIndex,
 int limit,
 Graphics context)

Suppressed: Returns the LineMetrics object for the specified character array in the specified Graphics context.

Parameters:

chars - the specified character array

beginIndex - the initial offset of chars

limit - the length of chars

context - the specified Graphics context

Returns:

a LineMetrics object created with the specified character array and Graphics context.

See Also:

java.awt.Font#getLineMetrics(char[], int, int, FontRenderContext)

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getLineMetrics

public java.awt.font.LineMetrics getLineMetrics(java.text.CharacterIterator ci,
 int beginIndex,
 int limit,
 Graphics context)

Suppressed: Returns the LineMetrics object for the specified CharacterIterator in the specified Graphics context.

Parameters:

ci - the specified CharacterIterator

beginIndex - the initial offset in ci

limit - the end index of ci

context - the specified Graphics context

Returns:

a LineMetrics object created with the specified arguments.

See Also:

java.awt.Font#getLineMetrics(CharacterIterator, int, int, FontRenderContext)

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getStringBounds

public java.awt.geom.Rectangle2D getStringBounds(String str,
 Graphics context)

Enabled: Returns the bounds of the specified String in the specified Graphics context. The bounds is used to layout the String.

Parameters:

str - the specified String

context - the specified Graphics context

Returns:

a Rectangle2D that is the bounding box of the specified String in the specified Graphics context.

See Also:

java.awt.Font#getStringBounds(String, FontRenderContext)

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getStringBounds

public java.awt.geom.Rectangle2D getStringBounds(String str,
 int beginIndex,
 int limit,
 Graphics context)

Enabled: Returns the bounds of the specified String in the specified Graphics context. The bounds is used to layout the String.

Parameters:

str - the specified String

beginIndex - the offset of the beginning of str

limit - the length of str

context - the specified Graphics context

Returns:

a Rectangle2D that is the bounding box of the specified String in the specified Graphics context.

See Also:

java.awt.Font#getStringBounds(String, int, int, FontRenderContext)

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getStringBounds

public java.awt.geom.Rectangle2D getStringBounds(char[] chars,
 int beginIndex,
 int limit,
 Graphics context)

Suppressed: Returns the bounds of the specified array of characters in the specified Graphics context. The bounds is used to layout the String created with the specified array of characters, beginIndex and limit.

Parameters:

chars - an array of characters

beginIndex - the initial offset of the array of characters

limit - the length of the array of characters

context - the specified Graphics context

Returns:

a Rectangle2D that is the bounding box of the specified character array in the specified Graphics context.

See Also:

java.awt.Font#getStringBounds(char[], int, int, FontRenderContext)

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getStringBounds

public java.awt.geom.Rectangle2D getStringBounds(java.text.CharacterIterator ci,
 int beginIndex,
 int limit,
 Graphics context)

Suppressed: Returns the bounds of the characters indexed in the specified CharacterIterator in the specified Graphics context.

Parameters:

ci - the specified CharacterIterator

beginIndex - the initial offset in ci

limit - the end index of ci

context - the specified Graphics context

Returns:

a Rectangle2D that is the bounding box of the characters indexed in the specified CharacterIterator in the specified Graphics context.

See Also:

java.awt.Font#getStringBounds(CharacterIterator, int, int, FontRenderContext)

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getMaxCharBounds

public java.awt.geom.Rectangle2D getMaxCharBounds(Graphics context)

Enabled: Returns the bounds for the character with the maximum bounds in the specified Graphics context.

Parameters:

context - the specified Graphics context

Returns:

a Rectangle2D that is the bounding box for the character with the maximum bounds.

See Also:

java.awt.Font#getMaxCharBounds(FontRenderContext)

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myFRC

private java.awt.font.FontRenderContext myFRC(Graphics context)

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toString

public String toString()

Suppressed: Returns a representation of this FontMetrics object's values as a String.

Overrides:

toString in class Object

Returns:

a String representation of this FontMetrics object.

Since:

JDK1.0.

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initIDs

private static void initIDs()

Initialize JNI field and method IDs

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