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kossmoboleat
kossmoboleat

Reputation: 1951

Can you use font ligatures with JavaFX

I'm implementing a text editor based on JavaFX. Is it possible to display font ligatures in the same way they work for example in Intellij?

I've found a reference to ligature support in the JavaFX API, but I don't know if this "proves" that there's support.

Upvotes: 8

Views: 444

Answers (2)

swpalmer
swpalmer

Reputation: 4380

JavaFX will render required ligatures, but it has no ability to opt in to optional ligatures. The issue tracking adding an API to enable this behaviour is https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8091616.

See also this message from the OpenJFX dev mailing list: https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/openjfx-dev/2022-October/036309.html

Upvotes: 0

GOXR3PLUS
GOXR3PLUS

Reputation: 7255

You can use Tomas Mikula RichTextFX library.

https://github.com/FXMisc/RichTextFX/

You many options here :

1) InlineCssTextArea uses the 

Node#setStyle(String cssStyle)

 method to style Text objects of 

InlineCssTextArea

and for each word or line you can set a different style using :

InlineCssTextArea.setStyle(from,to,style);

I have extensively used it before to have different fonts and styles inside the same line or lines.

2) StyleClassedTextArea uses the Node#setStyleClass(String styleClass) method to style Text objects. You can define the style classes in your stylesheet.

So let's say that inside your application.css you have defined 5 different style classes with different fonts. One of them might be... 

.red { -fx-fill: red; }

so you can use :

styleClassedTextArea.setStyleClass(from, to, "red");

This renders the text in the range [from, to) in red.

3) For more please check https://github.com/FXMisc/RichTextFX it has detailed description.

Also you can search for more examples on the web.

Upvotes: 4

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