was looking at for the class :) Thanks for clearing that up for me.
Adam H
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 12:46:55 -0700, Barney Boisvert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Two reasons. First FontMetrics has a protected constructor, so only
> 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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