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Rich: Thanks for the note; it's most informative. The reason I thought
there would be a default font is because my tree displays but I set no
font for it.

Leo.

Richard Wilkman wrote:
> 
> 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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