Way to add font stroke in paint?

[computor]

Is there a way to add a stroke around your font in a paint??

 

This is an example:

[TheScrub]

 http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/2d/advanced/transforming.html

[computor]

...thanks

Edited December 18, 2014 by computor

[Czar]

If you are truly stuck, there's a trick to achieving strokes and shadows in paint without any fancy stuff by drawing the text with the stroke color, then drawing the text again with a different color on top of it.

 

Usually, for shadows I just draw the text again with an offset of 1 pixel, so:

 

String msg = "Hello";

int x = 15, y = 15;

 

g.setColor(Color.BLACK);

drawString(msg, x + 1, y + 1);

g.setColor(Color.RED);

drawString(msg, x, y);

 

Thats for a basic shadow, however if you want a full stroke (like you mentioned in your thread) you must make additions to the above code so that it draws in every direction, not just + 1, example

 

drawString(msg, x + 1, y + 1);

drawString(msg, x, y + 1);

drawString(msg, x + 1, y);

 

however, from the looks of it, its drawing too many strings! So only use this if you are hopeless, it's really not that bad but its better than nothing.

Edited December 19, 2014 by Czar