Rich Text Support

Phil Race philip.race at oracle.com
Wed Oct 3 17:39:39 UTC 2018



On 10/03/2018 05:50 AM, Pedro Duque Vieira wrote:
> I think to start, probably a class like Swing's FontMetrics would be good
> to have? Before Java 9 there was one but it was private implementation.
> Just to have the basic API that would allow to build rich text editing
> support more easily, sorted out..
> This is also, generally, needed for calculating how to lay out text.

I agree, and maybe I should aim to finally implement this in 12 :
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8090775: Need font/text 
measurement API

-phil.


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