Recipe 13.3 Drawing Text

Problem

You need to draw text in a component.

Solution

Simply call the drawString ( ) method in the Graphics class:

// graphics/DrawStringDemo.java  import java.awt.*;    public class DrawStringDemo extends Component {      int textX = 10, textY = 20;      public void paint(Graphics g) {          g.drawString("Hello Java", textX, textY);      }      public Dimension getPreferredSize( ) {          return new Dimension(100, 100);      }  }