Getting string size in java (without having a Graphics object available)

Question

I\'m trying to write application which need to draw many strings using Graphics2D class in Java. I need to get sizes of each String object (to calculate exact p

Answer 1

Try with the FontMetrics class; the stringWidth method returns the size of a string. An example:

JComponent c = getSomeKindOfJComponent();
FontMetrics fm = c.getFontMetrics(c.getFont()); // or another font
int strw = fm.stringWidth("My text");