Re: Bug ID 4132856: JTextField withafractionally-scaledfontdoesn'twork correctly in 1.5.0_02.

• Subject: Re: Bug ID 4132856: JTextField withafractionally-scaledfontdoesn'twork correctly in 1.5.0_02.
• From: Jim Douglas <email@hidden>
• Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 17:02:30 -0700
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Jim.

On 29-May-05, at 4:34 PM, Adrian Sutton wrote:

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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