Java Text Formatting bold

java swing user-interface fonts border-layout

YellowSoloCup · Apr 3, 2014 · Viewed 17.6k times · Source

I am having a hard time understanding how to bold the text in my GUI program. The program shows the initial value of my calculator program to be 0.0 but I need to be able to make it bold and set it to 14 font. Is there any easy way to do this?

JPanel x = new JPanel(new BorderLayout());
         JTextField z = new JTextField();
         z.setEditable(false);
         z.setText("0.0");
         x.add(field, BorderLayout.NORTH);

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Try this:

z.setFont(z.getFont().deriveFont(Font.BOLD, 14f));

deriveFont() has the advantage of being able to base your new font on the existing one. This will maintain the font characteristics that you don't mean to change.

Java Text Formatting bold

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