[JAVA2D] Fast drawing/scaling of fonts?

[mattonline]

I'm doing an applet that needs to draw several lines of arbitrarily scaled text in a 
rectangular frame.

I need to be able to dynamically resize the font, dragging and scaling the box+text 
around the screen.  I have written code that does this, but it's a little slower than 
I'd like (I'm finding that it is faster to generate gifs and use drawImage(), which 
surprises me).

So I wonder if anyone would care to look at a fragment of my code and let me know if 
I'm missing anything - I think my technique for figuring out the bounding box of the 
paragraph and the kerning is a little awkward, and I wonder if there aren't any faster 
calls I could be making.  I'm fairly new to graphics2D and fonts, so it's likely that 
I'm doing something silly.

Any ideas are appreciated.

Thanks.

Matt



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// I CALL THESE DURING SETUP TO HAVE ACCESS TO THE FONT NAME LIST

      GraphicsEnvironment ge = GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment();
      String     envfonts[]  = ge.getAvailableFontFamilyNames();

// THE REST IS DONE DURING THE ANIMATION LOOP

      Font f             = new Font(textFontName,fontStyle, fontSize);
        AffineTransform at = new AffineTransform();
        GlyphVector gv[]   = new GlyphVector[10];

        at.scale(scale, scale);
        FontRenderContext frc = new FontRenderContext(at, false, false);

      int          i;
      int          rw=0;
      int          rh=0;
      Rectangle2D  r=null;

        // CREATE GVs AND FIGURE OUT BOUNDING BOX

      for (i = 0 ; i < textLines.length; i++) {
          gv[i]  = f.createGlyphVector(frc, textLines[i]);
        r      = gv[i].getLogicalBounds();

        rh    += r.getHeight();
        if ((int)r.getWidth() > rw)
              rw = (int)r.getWidth();
      }

        // FIGURE OUT LEADING

      int leading = (int)(r.getHeight()/8);

      rh += leading*(2+i);
      rw += leading*2;

        // DRAW FRAME

      int frame[] = new int[4];

        frame[0]=(int) center.x-(rw/2)-leading;
      frame[1]=(int) center.y-(rh/2)-leading;
      frame[2]=(int)(rw+2*leading);
      frame[3]=(int)(rh+2*leading);

      _gc2.drawRect(frame[0], frame[1], frame[2], frame[3]);

        // RENDER TEXT

      for (i = 0 ; i < textLines.length; i++) {
        if (textLines[i] == null) break;
                  _gc2.drawGlyphVector(gv[i], (center.x-rw/2)+leading, 
(center.y-rh/2)+leading+(int)((i+1)*r.getHeight()+i*leading) );
      }

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