J2ME in a Nutshell

Name

Font

Synopsis

This class represents a font that can be used to render text in the low-level API. A device has a default font that can be obtained from the static getDefaultFont() method. Other fonts, if there are any, can be obtained from the getFont() method, which requires three attributes:

Font face

An integer value that describes the type of font based on its appearance. The legal values are FACE_MONOSPACE, FACE_PROPORTIONAL and FACE_SYSTEM, which corresponds to a platform-dependent system font.

Font style

Selects a style of the given font face. Legal values are STYLE_PLAIN, STYLE_ITALIC, STYLE_BOLD and STYLE_UNDERLINE. STYLE_ITALIC and STYLE_BOLD may be used together to request a bold, italic font. STYLE_UNDERLINE may be combined with any of the other styles.

Font size

The relative size of the font, chosen from SIZE_SMALL, SIZE_MEDIUM and SIZE_LARGE.

Since the capabilities of MIDP devices vary widely, the application is only able to select a font based on this narrow set of logical attributes. The getFont() method returns the font from the set available to it that most closely matches the arguments supplied to it. Some devices may be able to closely match a wide range of requested fonts, while others might only be able to accurately represent a very small number. In order to minimize memory usage, the same Font instance will be returned by this method whenever the arguments supplied to it resolve to the same device font. This is possible because Font objects are immutable. ...