How to make different fonts appear in JTextField. Say a Hindi font or chinese font
Created May 4, 2012
In the java code you must put only the following line
JTextFiledName.setFont(new Font("Shusha", Font.PLAIN, 16));
Make sure you have the following setup done.
To display a font. Say a hindi font like Shusha. You must edit a file called font.properties in the jre/lib(in jdk1.2.2) and in my case Java2 under Visual cafe. Make the following modifications to that file.
Add the line below.
dialog.3=Shusha,SYMBOL_CHARSET,NEED_CONVERTED
Note if you are adding another font make sure it becomes
dialog.4=xxxx,SYMBOL_CHARSET,NEED_CONVERTED
Then repeat for bold, italics etc
... dialog.bold.3=Shusha,SYMBOL_CHARSET,NEED_CONVERTED ..... dialog.italic.3=Shusha,SYMBOL_CHARSET,NEED_CONVERTED .... dialog.bolditalic.3=Shusha,SYMBOL_CHARSET,NEED_CONVERTED
After that add the following line under where its written
# font filenames for reduced initialization time # filename.Shusha=SHUSHA.TTF
Here SHUSHA is the font name. It can be thoolica.ttf. I think its better to follow the same case of the one shown under the windows/font directory. Like SHUSHA is in all caps
Then add to the line below
# Static FontCharset info. # fontcharset.dialog.3=sun.awt.CharToByteSymbol
Now try running the application and enter a text in the text field and voila you get it in the language you want it.
And dont forget to have the font installed in your windows/font directory. If still not working make a copy in the fonts directory under the jvm/fonts directory