Font Size in RichEditField

[flameheels]

Very simple question.

I need to be able to set the font size of a RichTextField. I have looked at other examples in the forums and cannot get it to work. What is the simplest way to change the font. Please show entire process as I am a noob.

[Ivanov]

never worked with RichTextField, but from other Fields... setFont() should do it

[flameheels]

Thank you.
I am still trying to figure out how to use SetFont. It takes a Font object as a parameter, but from my understanding you can use FontFamly.GetFontFamilies to retrieve a suitable font.

I know how to do this with an array type such as:

FontFamily fontfam[] = FontFamily.getFontFamilies();
Font fon[] = new Font[2];
Font afont = Font;
fon[0] = fontfam[0].getFont(FontFamily.SCALABLE_FONT|Font.ITALIC, 18);
fon[1] = fontfam[1].getFont(FontFamily.SCALABLE_FONT, 24);

This also works for adding Italics.
I guess Im wondering if there is an easier way.

[flameheels]

sorry, there is an error above, the line
Font afont = Font;
should not be there

[richard.puckett]

This is easier:

Font font = Font.getDefault().derive(Font.PLAIN, 14, Ui.UNITS_px);

That'll give you something close to a 14px font. You can request a font with a certain point size by specifying Ui.UNITS_pt.

[flameheels]

Thank you. That worked well. I actually used
Font font = Font.getDefault().derive(Font.ITALIC| Font.BOLD, 40, Ui.UNITS_px);

any ideas on how to give a font color, I tried

RichTextField colorField = new RichTextField("Hello") {
// Override the paint method to set Color.
public void paint(Graphics graphics) {

//graphics.setFont(fon[0]);
graphics.setColor(Color.RED);
super.paint(graphics);
}
};
add(colorField);

4.5 does not seem to recognize the paint(graphics) method

[richard.puckett]

That works for me on 4.5.0. One thing to check (esp if you're using the JDE and it's not doing any of this for you, like a good IDE should) is that you're using

net.rim.device.api.ui.Graphics

and not

javax.microedition.lcdui.Graphics

It needs to be the first one to match the method signature from the Field class. I've seen people make this mistake before...

[flameheels]

Wow. You are right on the money!
That was exactly the problem, the wrong library file!

Thanks