Thread-topic: Bug ID 4132856: JTextField withafractionally-scaledfontdoesn'twork correctly in 1.5.0_02.
> If you happen to hit a character that's exactly the average
> width, it
> might look ok. Characters that are significantly different from the
> average (".", "i", "W", "M") get obviously out of sync much more
> quickly.
That's the point - a monospaced font doesn't have any characters that
differs from the average, they all have the same spacing. So for
Courier, either every character will be out by a certain amount or every
character will be correct and the problem won't show up. With a
variable spaced font, some characters may be out and some may be right
depending on whether or not they wind up with a fractional width. So if
you use a monospaced font at a size where the characters don't trigger
the problem you won't ever see the problem whereas if you use a variable
spaced font at any size you are likely to find a character somewhere
that triggers the problem.
Regards,
Adrian Sutton.
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