FontMetrics

[Andrea Liana]

Hello,

Its my first time I contribute to a mailing list, maybe not in proper 
way, but lets talk about Font Metrics.

I've been tinkering fro Java 8 with JavaFX and still I am.

I am working on framework in order to replace my old AWT/Swing based one 
in production.

About FontMetrics, it was one of the first problem I encountered when I 
built from scratch a new table component. Sorry for JavaFX, but the 
default one is quite hard to manage. To solve that, after digging all 
around, the easiest way to manage was to create an instance of 
javafx.scene.text.Text in the skin class and use it when calculating 
layout and text position.

The code looks like:

private final Texttext =new Text(); ....
text.setText(column._title); text.setFont(HeaderFont); final Bounds 
bounds = text.getLayoutBounds(); ... // Use bounds for text measurement...


Maybe its not the best or elegant way, but for the moment it works. In 
my opinion font measurements should be baked into the Font class 
directly instead of adding more classes.

Andrea Liana