Question

I’m trying to center a string drawn with a ”system’, Font.BOLD, 90′ font in Java. I’ve tried (width/2 – (font.size/2 * num_of_chars)) but that didn’t work.

g2d.setFont(new Font('system', Font.BOLD, 90)); g2d.drawString('Pause', (int) ((800/2) - ((Font.getSize()/2) * 5)),270); 

Answer 1

Use getFontMetrics().getStringBounds(String, Graphics) to get the bounds of the string with the current font.

So it would look something like this:

g2d.setFont(new Font('system', Font.BOLD, 90)); String msg = 'Pause'; Rectangle2D bounds = g2d.getFontMetrics().getStringBounds(msg, g2d); g2d.drawString(msg, (int) ((getWidth() + bounds.getWidth()) / 2), 270);