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Jay
Jay

Reputation: 1265

How to set String's font size, style in Java using the Font class?

Suppose I have a String, "Hello World". I want to change the style of this string to a BOLD font, and set the size of all the characters from 12 to 18 [pt]. After that I want to use this string in a JLabel and JButton. How can I do that?

Upvotes: 9

Views: 170977

Answers (2)

Petr Mensik
Petr Mensik

Reputation: 27496

Font myFont = new Font("Serif", Font.BOLD, 12);, then use a setFont method on your components like

JButton b = new JButton("Hello World");
b.setFont(myFont);

Upvotes: 24

PeterMmm
PeterMmm

Reputation: 24630

Look here http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/awt/Font.html#deriveFont%28float%29

JComponent has a setFont() method. You will control the font there, not on the String.

Such as

JButton b = new JButton();
b.setFont(b.getFont().deriveFont(18.0f));

Upvotes: 19

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