FontShowerAwt 2.9 build: 9327 released: 2009-01-23 Display AWT fonts in various styles, sizes and colours. Copyright (c) 2009 Canadian Mind Products. Java Applet (that can also be run as an application). Download from http://mindprod.com/products1.html#FONTSHOWERAWT ===> Free <=== Full source included. You may even include the source code, modified or unmodified in commercial programs that you write and distribute. May be used freely for any purpose but military. For more details on this restriction, see http://mindprod.com/contact/nonmil.html If you include any Canadian Mind Products code in your own applications, your app too must be labeled non-military use only. All Java jars and source code are included. ---- Prerequisites: This program runs under any OS, (e.g. Win2K/XP/Vista/OSX/Linux/Solaris/Vista64/AIX...) so long as you have <><> Java version 1.2 <><> or later installed. See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/installingjava.html for details. ---- Installing on a PC: Download source and compiled class files to run on your own machine as an application or Applet First install a recent Java JDK or JVM. See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/installingjava.html. To install, extract the zip download with WinZip (or similar unzip utility) into any directory you please, often J:\ -- ticking off the "use folder names" option. To run as an application,type: java -jar J:\com\mindprod\fontshowerawt\fontshowerawt.jar parms adjusting as necessary to account for where the jar file is. ---- Installing on a MacIntosh: Use Safari to download source and compiled class files to run on your own machine as an application or Applet. Safari will automatically unpack the zip into ~/Downloads (version 10.5) [or on the Desktop (version 10.4 and earlier)]. First install a recent Java JDK or JVM. See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/installingjava.html. You may optionally move the download tree to a permanent home. I don't have a MacIntosh, just a PC, so I can't test my Java programs for Mac compatibility. In theory they should work without problems, but in practice that does not always happen. If you have problems please, let me know, preferably with screenshots and complete verbatim error messages. To run as an application, without parameters, just double click the jar file. To run as an application with parameters, in bash shell type: open Terminal.app cd ~/Desktop java -jar com/mindprod/fontshowerawt/fontshowerawt.jar parms adjusting as necessary to account for where the jar file is. ---- Rebuilding: The zip already contains the necessary class and jar files, so unless you modify the program, there is no need to recompile the source or rebuild the jar. Configure basedir="E:/" in rebuild.xml to the drive where your files are. Use ANT and rebuild.xml, not build.xml, to recompile and recreate the jar. ---- Use: Displays all the fonts available via AWT in Java on the machine. Displays the fonts in a variety of styles, sizes and colours, rendered either with a Canvas or with a TextArea. Font Shower displays the fonts available on *your* machine to *Java*. Other people will have different fonts installed and will see different selections available via Java on their machines. Your browser will see a slightly different set of fonts than Java does. Java has a few extra private fonts, and some browser fonts don't work with Java. The source contains two classes that may be of general use: ColorChooser, an AWT color chooser that works in both hex and decimal letting you select foreground or background colours. You can cannibalise this COmponent for your own programs. The other is a FontArea, which is like a stripped-down TextArea, except it lets you use any Font on it, not just the basic logical fonts the way a real TextArea does. To install, Extract the zip download with WinZip, available from http://www.winzip.com (or similar unzip utility) into any directory you please, often C:\ -- ticking off the "user folder names" option. To run as an application, type: java -jar C:\com\mindprod\fontshowerawt\fontshowerawt.jar adjusting as necessary to account for where the jar file is. ---- Version History: 1.8 adds anti-aliasing and works under AWT. 1.9 now lets you see how both Canvas-style and TextArea style rendering works. 2.0 adds a Hiragana and Katakana character to the samples. 2.1 change the default to TextArea instead of Canvas to avoid giving the impression all fonts work in AWT in the ordinary case. 2.6 2007-10-02 fix recently introduced bug. Display all fonts for canvas. 2.7 2008-05-26 add arrows to font sample 2.8 2008-11-20 add Esperanto accented letters 2.9 2009-01-23 add Kanji digits to display -30-