Question

I have a custom font installed on my PC called “BMW1”. I’m trying to loop through all entries in this font and display them in a JTextArea.

I have the following code:

JTextArea displayArea = new JTextArea();
Font font = new Font("BMW1", Font.PLAIN, 72);
displayArea.setFont(font);

String sample = "";
for (int current = 0; current < 300; current++)
    sample += new Character((char)current).toString() + "\n";

displayArea.setText(sample);

When I run my program, it just prints out those little boxes (which I assume means it couldn’t find a font entry for that iteration).

Am I doing something wrong here? Is JTextArea the best option for this sort of thing? Any suggestions on how to do this?

Answer 1

Used Font canDisplay() methods to determine that Java can’t display this font.

I ended up switching to C# which has better support for custom fonts (at least in this particular case).