I've just started porting my Swing app from OS X to Windows and things are painful with JLabels.
I've noticed that the font specified to setFont is ignored if the label's text is HTML (this doesn't happen on the Mac). The HTML formatting is EXTREMELY useful for readability on complicated displays.
Under normal circumstances I'd specify the font in an HTML tag, but the font I'm using is loaded at runtime using Font.createFont with a ttf out of the JAR. I tried using the loaded font's name in the font tag, but that didn't work.
Is there any way I can use a loaded awt.Font with an html-ified JLabel on Windows?
Here's an example. I can't share my application's font, but I just ran it with this one (a pure TTF) and the same behavior happens:
http://www.dafont.com/sophomore-yearbook.font
import java.awt.Font;
import java.io.File;
import javax.swing.*;
public class LabelTestFrame extends JFrame {
public LabelTestFrame() throws Exception {
boolean useHtml = true;
String fontPath = "C:\\test\\test_font.ttf";
JLabel testLabel = new JLabel();
Font testFont = Font.createFont(Font.TRUETYPE_FONT, new File(fontPath)).deriveFont(18f);
testLabel.setFont(testFont);
if (useHtml) testLabel.setText("<html>Some HTML'd text</html>");
else testLabel.setText("Some plaintext");
getContentPane().add(testLabel);
setSize(300,300);
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
try {new LabelTestFrame().setVisible(true);}