Get font bounding rectangle in Java

Description

The following code shows how to get font bounding rectangle.

Example


import java.awt.Font;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.RenderingHints;
import java.awt.font.FontRenderContext;
import java.awt.geom.Rectangle2D;
// w  w  w  .j a v a 2 s  . c o m
import javax.swing.JComponent;
import javax.swing.JFrame;

class MyCanvas extends JComponent {
  public void paint(Graphics g) {
    Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D) g;

    g2.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING,
        RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON);

    g2.setFont(new Font("Serif", Font.PLAIN, 48));

    FontRenderContext frc = g2.getFontRenderContext();
    Rectangle2D bounds = g2.getFont().getStringBounds("java2s.com", frc);
    g2.draw(bounds);
  }
}

public class Main {
  public static void main(String[] a) {
    JFrame window = new JFrame();
    window.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    window.setBounds(30, 30, 450, 450);
    window.getContentPane().add(new MyCanvas());
    window.setVisible(true);
  }
}

The code above generates the following result.

Get font bounding rectangle in Java




















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