Maybe the wrong question to ask? Re: [platform-swt-dev] FontMetrics ques

[Jack Park <jackpark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Since nobody rose to the siren call for an explanation of how to do what 
we can do in AWT, let me rephrase the question.

I want to draw an oval and put some text inside it.  How to I, when 
given a String as a label inside the oval, know what bounding rectangle 
to assign to the oval?  That is, the oval, or a rectangle, or any other 
shape, needs to know how large it should be based on the text (font, 
size, etc) that it will surround. Maybe FontMetrics is the wrong 
metaphor. What is the right metaphor?

Thanks
Jack

Steve Northover wrote:

> Did I miss the discussion about fontMetrics.width()?
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> In taking some awt stuff -- really cool stuff worth moving to SWT -- I
> am running into the fontMetrics.width() issue. Is there a graceful
> workaround?
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> Thanks
> Jack