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Leo:

JTree doesn't set a font in it's constructor.  In fact, if you walk
the hierarchy you see that you are really calling
java.lang.Component.getFont() which returns null if a font hasn't been
set on the Component().  In fact, Component.setFont() doesn't look
like it's been overridden at all.

Looking more in the source you'll see that the font member of
Component is null if there is no peer for the font (earlier releases
of the JDK would get the system font or some such, but as peers
disappear, so does this behaviour.

Not sure how you'll get the "default" font, now.  Since the default
font is consistent (or seems to be), the only time I can see using
your code is to change it.  In that case, I'd catch the null and set
the font to whatever.

FWIW, most of the font handling for JDK 1.2 is handled via the Java2D
stuff (part of the reason that UI is so very much slower).  There may
be an answer down those lines wrt: "default".

-Rich

Leo Cohen wrote:
> 
> I have created a JTree with
> 
>         JTree jTree = new JTree();
> 
> and then try to get its font with
> 
>         Font font = jTree.getFont();
> 
> This produces font = null.
> 
> How do I get the current, presumably default, font for JTree?
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