Question

I got the coding separately for these Line breaking & Tab Spacing.

Line Spacing:

private void drawString(Graphics g, String text, int x, int y) {
    for (String line : text.split("\n")) {
        g.drawString(line, x, y += g.getFontMetrics().getHeight());
    }
} 

Tab Spacing:

private void drawtabString(Graphics g, String text, int x, int y) {
    for (String line : text.split("\t")) {
        g.drawString(line, x += g.getFontMetrics().getHeight(), y);
    }
}

How can I combine this codes?

Where I want the out put of g.drawString("Line 1\t:Words\t\nLine 2\t:\tWords", x, y); :
Like;

Line 1 [tab space]: [tabspace] Words
Line 2 [tab space]: [tabspace] Words

Answer 1

private void drawString(Graphics g, String text, int x, int y) {
    for (String line : text.split("\n")) {
        drawtabString(g, line, x, y += g.getFontMetrics().getHeight());
    }
} 

Note: embedding the modification of the y variable inside the method call makes it confusing. I would separate it into 2 instructions to make the code more obvious:

drawtabString(g, line, x, y);
y += g.getFontMetrics().getHeight();

PS: are you sure you don’t want to simply use a JTextArea?