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Re: JLabel Clipping

Sam Berlin <email@hidden> wrote:

>Has anyone else noticed problems with JLabel's clipping text for no reason?

Yes. And not just on 10.3 w/ Java 1.4.2_03-117.1.

In my experience, the reason is that FontMetrics are frequently incorrect,
especially for certain fonts. Some fonts are so badly measured that they
are unusable. And that's just the fonts that come with Mac OS X, not
anything funky I've added afterwards.

The problems I've seen are not confined to FontMetrics.stringWidth().
Similar problems crop up in related areas, such as GlyphVectors and other
means of text measurement.

In JLabels, I've used EmptyBorder to add extra padding as a work-around.
I've also had to avoid some fonts, usually the fancy scripty swashy ones.

And no, turning anti-aliasing off doesn't fix anything, in my experience.
That just makes it break in different ways, in addition to making the text
look like crap.

-- GG
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