Java Text Formatting bold

Question

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);

Evvy

Answer 1

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.

Tehee

That's exactly what I needed! Thank you! I kept forgetting the deriveFont and was putting a comma instead of a period. – Evvy

Answer 2

You can simply change you JTextField font by doing the following:

f.setFont(new Font("Tahoma", Font.BOLD, 14));// Tahoma is an example, you could use any forn you want.

Kellsie