Font Size Calculate

[Toyman]

Hi

This is want I want to do...

I've got 3 Lines (3 x Strings)..
Lets say
Line1 = "Hello World"
Line2 = "Goodbye World"
Line3 = "Here I am again World"

I want to calculate the rectangular erea around the 3 lines.
So
x = 0
y = 0
width = (size of each character (in font size))
height = (size of largest character (in font size) * 3)

Plus all the spaces between characters, line feeds .. bla bla bla..

The bottom lines is, that I want to draw 'n rectagle around the text, and the text could be in any font/font size/bold or plain/italic bla bla bla.

Hope this make sense...

Thanks
Toyman

 

[palbano]

see:

FontMetrics java.awt.Graphics.getFontMetrics(Font)
and
java.awt.FontMetrics.getStringBounds(String, Graphics)

-pete