it's subclasses can call it. Second, it's an abstract class, so even
if it had a public constructor, you still couldn't instantiate it.
That method of getting a FontMetrics object is a heck of a lot better
than my temp image idea, I might add.
cheers,
barneyb
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 15:22:08 -0400, Adam Haskell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I came up with this (you could easily turn it into a function):
>
> font_obj = createobject("java","java.awt.Font").init('Tahoma',1,8);
> font_metrics_obj =
> createobject("java","java.awt.Toolkit").getDefaultToolkit().getFontMetrics(font_obj);
> Pixel_Width = font_metrics_obj.stringWidth('My co-worker is mean');
>
> I have a question though....I tried to do
> createobject("java","java.awt.FontMetrics").init(font_obj) and it
> gave me an error:
> Unable to find a constructor for class java.awt.FontMetrics that
> accepts parameters of type ( java.awt.Font )
>
> Any ideas what I was doing wrong?
>
> Adam H
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