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Message:

simple question about clipping

Posted by Bev on August 01, 2001 at 5:49 AM

Hi,

I am studying a long distance course in Java (I have no prior programming experience) and have come unstuck on what is probably rather a simple question: as follows:

"Design and implement an applet which generates positive integers and displays each one together with a suitable message (i.e "The number is: 2") at 2 second intervals. The font should be Courier, bold, 24 points. Use clipping to minimise flicker"

My answer thus far:

import java.awt.*;
public class NumberGenerator extends Tasking Applet
{
Font theFont;
int count, stringwidth, stringheight;
FontMetrics fm;

public void init()

{
theFont = new Font ("Courier, Font.BOLD, 24);
setForeground(Color.blue);
fm = getFontMetrics(theFont);
count = count+1;
stringheight = fm.getHeight
stringwidth = ?????????
etc.......

I am assuming thus far that I have got everything correct but I am having difficulty with working out the call to return the width in pixels and assign it to the stringwidth variable -

I thought it might be: stringwidth = fm.getWidth(count); but this doesn't seem to work.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks
Bev.

• See Java Documentation!! Nik August 01, 2001 at 8:48 AM (0)