What is the Constant Value of the Underline font in Java?

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Waseem picture Waseem · Nov 28, 2008 · Viewed 27.1k times · Source

What is the Constant Value of the Underline font in Java ?

Font.BOLD bold font

Font.ITALIC italic font

What is the UNDERLINE font Constant ? I try all the available constants but it didn't work .

Answer

Blake picture Blake · Jan 13, 2009

Suppose you wanted a underlined and bolded Serif style font, size=12.

Map<TextAttribute, Integer> fontAttributes = new HashMap<TextAttribute, Integer>();
fontAttributes.put(TextAttribute.UNDERLINE, TextAttribute.UNDERLINE_ON);
Font boldUnderline = new Font("Serif",Font.BOLD, 12).deriveFont(fontAttributes);

If you don't want it bolded, use Font.PLAIN instead of Font.BOLD. Don't use the getAttributes() method of the Font class. It will give you a crazy wildcard parameterized type Map<TextAttribute,?>, and you won't be able to invoke the put() method. Sometimes Java can be yucky like that. If you're interested in why, you can check out this site: http://www.angelikalanger.com/GenericsFAQ/FAQSections/ParameterizedTypes.html

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