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Tor,

In fact this just isn't true.  Try drawing the following strings (one below
the other) using the "Monospaced" font:

1.       "MMMMM"

2.       \u2228 + \u2228 + \u2228 + \u2228 +\u2228

and you will see that these strings, which have the same character length,
do not draw out to the same length on the screen.

What I need is some guidance about creating a descendent of jTextField which
will enforce a truly uniform value for characterWidth + paddihg.  If you can
help, I would be grateful.

James

"Tor Iver Wilhelmsen" <tor.wilhelmsen@sds.no> wrote in message
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> "James A. Schulz" <jaschulz@wiseware.com> writes:
>
> > I am assuming that "M" is the same width as all the other characters in
the
> > "Monospaced" font, otherwise what does "Monospaced" mean?
>
> That all characters occupy the same area - but this means the
> character width _plus padding_ is constant. And the em value is based
> on use of [a-zA-Z] plus possibly the special characters: Unicode may
> have several characters that the "em" standard doesn't take into
> account.