Creating non-default Fonts in JDK 1.1

Question

Hello,
I need to create an applet that runs on 1.1 and has access to as many fonts as possible. Are there any ways that I can create other Fonts in JDK 1.1 except for the ones returned by Toolkit.getFontList()?
Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

Unfortunately I don't - and if you're only building for Netscape pre 4.7 (from the sound of it) it won't help. However it is possible to write the code in such a way that it will fail gracefully and use the limited font set in the older Netscapes. When users are using the Sun VM, the old Font call picks up new fonts automatically.
You can do it by creating a helper class, that does all the work, and then only create an instance of the class once you know it's available. If it's not you just create a standard Font.
The class uses a function to return the Font as the parent doesn't know anything about FontX.
Calling code...
Font f;
if (bMicrosoftVM)   //various ways to check for this
     f = (new MSTextX("ZapfDingbats", 0, 12).GetFont());          
else
     f = new Font("ZapfDingbats", 0, 12);MSTextX class code...
import com.ms.awt.FontX;
import java.awt.Font;
public class MSTextX
     public MSTextX(String fnt, int iStyle, int iSz)
          try
               m_fnt = new FontX(fnt, iStyle, iSz);
          catch (Exception e) {;}     
     public Font GetFont()
          return(m_fnt);
     private Font
          m_fnt;
}