net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill

Interface JRTextMeasurer

All Known Implementing Classes:

JdkGlyphFixTextMeasurer, TextMeasurer

public interface JRTextMeasurer

Text measurer interface. A text measurer is responsible for fitting a text in a given space and for computing other text measuring information.

Author:

Lucian Chirita (lucianc@users.sourceforge.net)

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
JRMeasuredText	measure(JRStyledText styledText, int remainingTextStart, int availableStretchHeight, boolean canOverflow) Fit a text chunk in a given space.

Method Detail

measure

JRMeasuredText measure(JRStyledText styledText,
                     int remainingTextStart,
                     int availableStretchHeight,
                     boolean canOverflow)

Fit a text chunk in a given space.

Parameters:

styledText - the full text

remainingTextStart - the start index of the remaining text

availableStretchHeight - the available stretch height

canOverflow - whether the text element is able to overflow

Returns:

text measuring information