JTextArea font from JComboBox

Question

I made my own text editor some days ago and I am having trouble with fonts. The component that I used for making the text editor is JTextArea .So what I want to do is to show the user a Dialog box with 3 JComboBoxeswhich would be size, font and style (Bold, italic, underlined) and a button. After making the desired choices, the user will click on the button and the font will be applied.

Here is my code. What is the correct way to use the .setFont() method?

final JTextArea area = new JTextArea(5,10);

final JComboBox font = new JComboBox();
font.addItem("Arial");
font.addItem("Calibri");
font.addItem("Garamond");
font.addItem("Jokerman");
font.addItem("MV Boli");// and many more

final JComboBox size = new JComboBox();
size.addItem("8");
size.addItem("12");
size.addItem("16");
size.addItem("18");
size.addItem("24");// and many more

final JComboBox style = new JComboBox();
font.addItem("bold);
font.addItem("itaic");
font.addItem("underlined");

JButton button = new JButton("Done");
button.addActionListener(new ActionListener()
{
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae)
{
area.setFont(new Font(font.getSelectedItem(),style.getSelectedItem(),size.getSelectedItem()));
}
});

Answer 1

After making the desired choices, the user will click on the button and the font will be applied.

Here is my code. What is the correct way to use the .setFont() method?

     

For example

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Locale;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.plaf.FontUIResource;
import javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicComboBoxRenderer;

public class SystemFontDisplayer extends JFrame {

    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
    private JFrame frame = new JFrame("Nimbus UIDeafaults and Font");
    private JComboBox fontsBox;
    private javax.swing.Timer timer = null;
    private JButton testButton = new JButton("testButton");
    private JTextField testTextField = new JTextField("testTextField");
    private JLabel testLabel = new JLabel("testLabel");
    private Font font1, font2;
    private JMenuBar menuBar1 = new JMenuBar();
    private JMenu menu1 = new JMenu("Menu 1");
    private JMenu menu2 = new JMenu("Menu 2");
    private JMenuItem menuItem1 = new JMenuItem("MenuItem 1");
    private JMenuItem menuItem2 = new JMenuItem("MenuItem 2");

    public SystemFontDisplayer() {
        try {
            font1 = Font.createFont(Font.TRUETYPE_FONT, SystemFontDisplayer.class.getResourceAsStream("/Images/SourceSansPro-Regular.ttf"));
            font2 = Font.createFont(Font.TRUETYPE_FONT, SystemFontDisplayer.class.getResourceAsStream("/Images/SourceSansPro-Regular.otf"));
        } catch (FontFormatException ex) {
            Logger.getLogger(SystemFontDisplayer.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
        } catch (IOException ex) {
            Logger.getLogger(SystemFontDisplayer.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
        }
        GraphicsEnvironment ge = GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment();
        ge.registerFont(font1);
        //ge.registerFont(font2);
        String[] fontFamilyNames = ge.getAvailableFontFamilyNames(Locale.getDefault());
        fontsBox = new JComboBox(fontFamilyNames);
        fontsBox.setSelectedItem(0);
        fontsBox.setRenderer(new ComboRenderer());
        fontsBox.addItemListener(new ItemListener() {
            @Override
            public void itemStateChanged(ItemEvent e) {
                if (e.getStateChange() == ItemEvent.SELECTED) {
                    final String fontName = fontsBox.getSelectedItem().toString();
                    fontsBox.setFont(new Font(fontName, Font.PLAIN, 16));
                    start();
                }
            }
        });
        fontsBox.setSelectedItem(0);
        fontsBox.getEditor().selectAll();
        menu1.add(menuItem1);
        menuBar1.add(menu1);
        menu2.add(menuItem2);
        menuBar1.add(menu2);
        frame.setJMenuBar(menuBar1);
        frame.setLayout(new GridLayout(4, 0, 20, 20));
        frame.add(fontsBox);
        frame.add(testButton);
        frame.add(testTextField);
        frame.add(testLabel);
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        frame.setLocation(200, 105);
        frame.pack();
        java.awt.EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                fontsBox.setPopupVisible(true);
                fontsBox.setPopupVisible(false);
            }
        });
        frame.setVisible(true);
    }

    private void start() {
        timer = new javax.swing.Timer(750, updateCol());
        timer.setRepeats(false);
        timer.start();
    }

    public Action updateCol() {
        return new AbstractAction("text load action") {
            private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

            @Override
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                final Font fnt = new Font(fontsBox.getSelectedItem().toString(), Font.PLAIN, 12);
                final FontUIResource res = new FontUIResource(fnt);
                UIManager.getLookAndFeelDefaults().put("Button.font", res);
                UIManager.getLookAndFeelDefaults().put("TextField.font", res);
                UIManager.getLookAndFeelDefaults().put("Label.font", res);
                SwingUtilities.updateComponentTreeUI(frame);
                frame.pack();
            }
        };
    }

    public static void main(String arg[]) {
        /*try {
         UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());
         UIManager.setLookAndFeel("com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows.WindowsLookAndFeel");
         UIManager.setLookAndFeel("com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows.WindowsClassicLookAndFeel");
         } catch (Exception e) {
         e.printStackTrace();
         }*/
        java.awt.EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                SystemFontDisplayer systemFontDisplayer = new SystemFontDisplayer();
            }
        });
    }

    private class ComboRenderer extends BasicComboBoxRenderer {

        private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

        @Override
        public Component getListCellRendererComponent(JList list, Object value, int index, boolean isSelected, boolean cellHasFocus) {
            super.getListCellRendererComponent(list, value, index, isSelected, cellHasFocus);
            final Object fntObj = value;
            final String fontFamilyName = (String) fntObj;
            setFont(new Font(fontFamilyName, Font.PLAIN, 16));
            return this;
        }
    }
}