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thehiatus
thehiatus

Reputation: 1575

How to underline text in draw2d

Is there a simple way to draw underlined text in draw2d without manually drawing a line under the text?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1784

Answers (2)

thehiatus
thehiatus

Reputation: 1575

After a bit of research, it looks like underlined text isn't supported natively in Draw2D since SWT fonts are OS level objects and not every OS supported by SWT supports underlined text. Looks like the best bet is to create a method that draws underlined text manually. Maybe it's something that will get added into SWT later.

Here's what I ended up using (more or less):

private void drawUnderlinedText(GC gc, String string, int x, int y)
{
    Point extent = gc.textExtent(string);
    gc.drawText(string, x, y);
    gc.drawLine(x - 1, y + extent.y - 1, x + extent.x - 1, y + extent.y - 1);
}

Upvotes: 2

camickr
camickr

Reputation: 324108

Use a Font with an underline attribute. Darryl's Visual Font Designer shows how to create a font with this property.

Upvotes: 0

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