Drawing Text
Problem
You need to draw text in a component.
Solution
Simply call the drawString ( )
method in the
Graphics
class:
// graphics/DrawStringDemo.java import java.awt.*; public class DrawStringDemo extends Component { int textX = 10, textY = 20; public void paint(Graphics g) { g.drawString("Hello Java", textX, textY); } public Dimension getPreferredSize( ) { return new Dimension(100, 100); } }
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