com.denova.ui
Class Fonts

java.lang.Object
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public class Fonts

extends java.lang.Object

Common fonts. Too many fonts spoil the look of an application. This class provides a standard font set. It also includes a locale-safe setFont(). For great fonts, you have to turn on anti-aliasing. By default it's off in Sun java 5 and 6. One option is to add this to your main() method, before doing anything at all with Swing:

            // set anti-aliasing
            System.getProperties().setProperty("swing.aatext", "true");
    

Another option is to set the "swing.aatext" property on the java command line by adding:

            -Dswing.aatext=true
    

This class also sets swing.aatext=true in a static initializer, but there's no guarantee that this static code will run before any Swing code. Copyright 2008 DeNova All rights reserved worldwide
Last modified: 2008.04.04

Field Summary

static java.awt.Font	Big Standard big font.
static float	BigPointSize The BigPointSize is larger than the Dialog point size.
static java.awt.Font	Bold Standard bold font.
static java.awt.Font	Dialog The Dialog font is the default font for a JComponent on the current platform.
static java.awt.Font	Header Standard header font; bigger than Big.
static float	HeaderPointSize The HeaderPointSize is much larger the Dialog point size.
static java.awt.Font	Italic Standard italic font.
static java.awt.Font	Plain Standard plain font.
static float	PointSize The default PointSize is the size of the Dialog font.
static java.awt.Font	Small
static float	SmallPointSize The SmallPointSize is smaller than the Dialog point size.

Constructor Summary

Fonts()

Method Summary

static void

setFont(javax.swing.JComponent component, java.awt.Font font) Set the font for a JComponent.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

Dialog

public static java.awt.Font Dialog

The Dialog font is the default font for a JComponent on the current platform.

PointSize

public static float PointSize

The default PointSize is the size of the Dialog font.

Plain

public static java.awt.Font Plain

Standard plain font. The point size is the size of the Dialog font.

Bold

public static java.awt.Font Bold

Standard bold font.

Italic

public static java.awt.Font Italic

Standard italic font.

SmallPointSize

public static float SmallPointSize

The SmallPointSize is smaller than the Dialog point size.

Small

public static java.awt.Font Small

BigPointSize

public static float BigPointSize

The BigPointSize is larger than the Dialog point size.

Big

public static java.awt.Font Big

Standard big font.

HeaderPointSize

public static float HeaderPointSize

The HeaderPointSize is much larger the Dialog point size. Use the Header font where you would use a header in html.

Header

public static java.awt.Font Header

Standard header font; bigger than Big.

Constructor Detail

Fonts

public Fonts()

Method Detail

setFont

public static void setFont(javax.swing.JComponent component,
                           java.awt.Font font)

Set the font for a JComponent. Non-latin fonts often can't handle variants such as Font.BOLD. If the locale's default langauge is non-Latin, then don't change the font.

Parameters:

component - where to set the font

font - new font