I'm writing a Swing application and I'm trying to figure out a way to display text while being able to control the following text properties:
- font family and size
- text overline
- lower index
Of course the more flexible the approach, the better, but those are strictly mandatory for me.
What I already tried:
- using
JTextPaneand settingtext-decoration: overlineattribute - doesn't work, becauseJTextPanehtml/css engine is dated and doesn't support this - using
JTextPanewith setting upper border via css - doesn't work, because it can only be applied to html nodes withdisplay:block(such as divs), and I need this inline (settingdisplay: inline-blockis not supported inJTextPane, so I can't use that) - using
WebViewfrom JavaFX - this is where I'm currently at, but I can't figure out how to load a custom font programmatically. It only seems to be working when the font is loaded at OS level (e.g. when the font file is present in ~/.fonts on Linux)
This is a working example. Mostly taken from Integrating JavaFX into Swing Applications.
Mind the font file, which you might have to specify yourself (here's the file I used):
import javafx.application.Platform;
import javafx.embed.swing.JFXPanel;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.text.Font;
import javafx.scene.web.WebView;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;
public class Test {
private static void initAndShowGUI() {
JFrame frame = new JFrame("Swing and JavaFX");
final JFXPanel fxPanel = new JFXPanel();
frame.add(fxPanel);
frame.setSize(300, 200);
frame.setVisible(true);
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
Platform.runLater(() -> initFX(fxPanel));
}
private static void initFX(JFXPanel fxPanel) {
Scene scene = createScene();
fxPanel.setScene(scene);
}
private static Scene createScene() {
var wb = new WebView();
// ???
var f = Font.loadFont("lmroman10-regular.otf", 10);
assert f != null;
wb.getEngine().loadContent(
"<html><body>" +
"<span style=\"" +
"text-decoration: overline; " +
"font-size: 24px;" +
"font-family: 'LM Roman 10';\">" +
"foo" +
"</span>" +
"bar" +
"</body></html>");
return new Scene(wb);
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(() -> initAndShowGUI());
}
}