Does anyone know of a java2d text library?

Question

This is what I need in my game regarding text:

Word Wrap Support given a bounding box
Vertical and Horizontal alignment given a bounding box

Now, I've been reading about how to use TextLayout, and it seems possible to write all this myself but I'd prefer to think at a higher level. I just want a Label class with a signature like this:

public Label(String text, Alignment alignment, VAlignment vAlignment);

Does anyone know of an open source (non-gpl) library out there that makes text formatting simple?

Answer 1

If you are using java2d to paint your game graphics, you should be able to use the the awt or swing text components to render your text. You could e.g. create a JLabel and call its paint und update methods manually in your render queue with your Graphics2D context.

JLabel label = new JLabel("your text");
label.setLocation(0, 100); 
label.setSize(20, 100);
label.paint(g); // g is your Graphics2D context