Java Draw String drawStringVertical(Graphics graphics, String string, int x, int y)

Description

Draw a String vertical.

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
graphics	graphics to paint with
string	string to to draw
x	upper left x
y	upper left y

Declaration

public static void drawStringVertical(Graphics graphics, String string, int x, int y) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*/*from   w  ww. j  a  v  a2s  . c om*/
 *  File: GraphicsHelper.java 
 *  Copyright (c) 2004-2007  Peter Kliem (Peter.Kliem@jaret.de)
 *  A commercial license is available, see http://www.jaret.de.
 *
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Common Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/cpl-v10.html
 */

import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Image;

import java.awt.geom.Rectangle2D;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.awt.image.ImageObserver;

public class Main {
    /**
     * Draw a String vertical. This method might be quite costly since it uses an image to buffer.
     * 
     * @param graphics graphics to paint with
     * @param string string to to draw
     * @param x upper left x
     * @param y upper left y
     */
    public static void drawStringVertical(Graphics graphics, String string, int x, int y) {
        Rectangle2D rect = graphics.getFontMetrics().getStringBounds(string, graphics);
        BufferedImage img = new BufferedImage((int) rect.getWidth(), (int) rect.getHeight(),
                BufferedImage.TYPE_3BYTE_BGR);

        Graphics imageGraphics = img.getGraphics();
        imageGraphics.setColor(Color.WHITE);
        imageGraphics.fillRect(0, 0, img.getWidth(), img.getHeight());
        imageGraphics.setColor(Color.BLACK);

        imageGraphics.drawString(string, 0, (int) rect.getHeight());

        BufferedImage vertImg = new BufferedImage((int) rect.getHeight(), (int) rect.getWidth(),
                BufferedImage.TYPE_3BYTE_BGR);

        for (int xx = 0; xx < img.getWidth(); xx++) {
            for (int yy = 0; yy < img.getHeight(); yy++) {
                vertImg.setRGB(yy, img.getWidth() - xx - 1, img.getRGB(xx, yy));
            }
        }

        graphics.drawImage(vertImg, x, y, new ImageObserver() {

            public boolean imageUpdate(Image img, int infoflags, int x, int y, int width, int height) {
                return false;
            }

        });

    }
}

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