Curved text in Java

Question

I am looking for the easiest way to draw some text around an ellipse object in my application.
I need to create a hug feeling.

So far, I have used the Graphics2D class to print my drawings on the screen, and my "canvas" is a BufferedImage.

The width and height of my ellipses are constant at 50.50 respectively.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Here is an example of curved text:

// slightly modified from the original: // http://examples.oreilly.com/9781565924840/examples/RollingText.java import javax.swing.*; import java.awt.*; import java.awt.font.*; import java.awt.geom.*; public class RollingText extends JFrame { RollingText() { super("RollingText v1.0"); super.setSize(650, 350); super.setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE); } public void paint(Graphics g) { Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D) g; g2.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING, RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON); String s = "What our vector, Victor?"; Font font = new Font("Serif", Font.PLAIN, 24); FontRenderContext frc = g2.getFontRenderContext(); g2.translate(40, 80); GlyphVector gv = font.createGlyphVector(frc, s); int length = gv.getNumGlyphs(); for (int i = 0; i < length; i++) { Point2D p = gv.getGlyphPosition(i); double theta = (double) i / (double) (length - 1) * Math.PI / 4; AffineTransform at = AffineTransform.getTranslateInstance(p.getX(), p.getY()); at.rotate(theta); Shape glyph = gv.getGlyphOutline(i); Shape transformedGlyph = at.createTransformedShape(glyph); g2.fill(transformedGlyph); } } public static void main(String[] args) { SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() { @Override public void run() { new RollingText().setVisible(true); } }); } } 

which produces: