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Java Text Formatting bold

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);
Solution

  • 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.