org.crosswire.common.swing
Class GuiConvert

java.lang.Object
  org.crosswire.common.swing.GuiConvert

public final class GuiConvert
extends Object

Conversions between various types and Strings.

Author:

Joe Walker

See Also:

The GNU General Public License for details.

Field Summary

private static org.slf4j.Logger

log The log stream

Constructor Summary

private

GuiConvert() We don't want anyone doing this ...

Method Summary

static String	color2String(Color color) Convert a Color to a String
static Font	deriveFont(String fontspec, String fontName) Create a font just like the another with regard to style and size, but differing in font family.
static String	font2String(Font font) Convert a Font to a String.
static Color	string2Color(String value) Convert a String to a Color
static Font	string2Font(String value) Convert a String to a Font.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

log

private static final org.slf4j.Logger log

The log stream

Constructor Detail

GuiConvert

private GuiConvert()

We don't want anyone doing this ...

Method Detail

string2Font

public static Font string2Font(String value)

Convert a String to a Font. Accepts one of two inputs: FamilyName-STYLE-size, where STYLE is either PLAIN, BOLD, ITALIC or BOLDITALIC
or
FamilyName,style,size, where STYLE is 0 for PLAIN, 1 for BOLD, 2 for ITALIC or 3 for BOLDITALIC.

Parameters:

value - the thing to convert

Returns:

the converted data

font2String

public static String font2String(Font font)

Convert a Font to a String. Produces a format that can be read with Font.decode(String).

Parameters:

font - the thing to convert

Returns:

the converted data

deriveFont

public static Font deriveFont(String fontspec,
                              String fontName)

Create a font just like the another with regard to style and size, but differing in font family.

Parameters:

fontspec - the font to model

fontName - the font to use

Returns:

the font

string2Color

public static Color string2Color(String value)

Convert a String to a Color

Parameters:

value - the thing to convert

Returns:

the converted data

color2String

public static String color2String(Color color)

Convert a Color to a String

Parameters:

color - the thing to convert

Returns:

the converted data