Antialiasing font in JAVA apps ????

Mustard007

Hi !

It's possible to have antialiasing font in the JAVA apps /applets ???

The font are so ugly ;o)

I use sun-jdk.

Thanks !!

JPMRaptor · Guru Joined: 04 Oct 2002 Posts: 410 Location: Maryland

That's probably going to depend a lot on what the Java app does. If it's based on AWT it's using native components for the GUI components and should do whatever your other applications do. If it's based on Swing they the application has to set a special property to get antialiasing.
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Twix · Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2004 1:14 am Post subject:

The only Java apps that can do proper antialiasing in Unix are apps using SWT. This library renders the widgets using gtk-2.0.

Example: Eclipse

PowerFactor · Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2004 1:26 am Post subject:

While the fonts can't be antialiased (except with swt) you can switch to font's that are much less ugly than the defaults. Have a look at the $JDK_HOME/jre/lib/font.properties file. Just keep your font choices conservative or you may have problems with some apps. I set it to use the same fonts that java uses on windows. You can use xfontsel to help you figure out the string to put in font.properties for any given font.

Mustard007 · Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2004 3:57 am Post subject:

Thanks all !!

Can you send me your font.properties files ?

bcore · n00b Joined: 09 Apr 2003 Posts: 59 Location: Toronto

I noticed that the lates NetBeans is able to do AA fonts (as in it AAs the fonts in its editor).. Didn't stop to wonder how though, I'm an eclipse guy.

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