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Chapter 11, Native Integration and Packaging

#86 Make Quick Look and Feel Changes

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Text Components

Text components have font settings in addition to their colors. This lets you

set a component to use a different font style or size. You can even load a cus-

tom font from a file:

Font font = Font.createFont(Font.TRUETYPE_FONT,

new FileInputStream("dungeon.ttf"));

font = font.deriveFont(Font.BOLD,16f);

UIManager.put("Label.font",font);

This would look like Figure 11-12.

Most components also have margins that are defined by an

Insets object. A

text field with large insets:

UIManager.put("TextField.margin", new Insets(25,25,25,25));

would look like Figure 11-13.

Figure 11-11. A sample program with green components

Figure 11-12. A custom font