Drawing on Buttons

Hi,
I am developing an application, which displays text in Indian local languages. Even the buttons are to have text in the local language. The API provides me to call drawstring(Graphics, String, int, int) to draw a required string on say a canvas.
How can I achieve this on a Button. For compatibility issues, I am to use only java.awt.*; and not swing. Developing my own button might take too much time.... I am not really sure. I also tried searching for "custom buttons" and "drawing on buttons" but couldn' t get anything relevant.
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Regards,
Vinay

Maybe I'm missing the point here, but ... Why don't you just specify the text you want, whatever the language is, in the constructor for the button? If you want to create a button that says "Wimflicket" because that's the word for "Print" in whatever language, just create the button with new Button("Wimflicket")If you have to support multiple languages, decide what language you are using before you create the button and supply the text in the appropriate language. If for some reason you just must create the button first and decide the language later, use setLabel() to set the text. If you need a special font to render the language, you can do a "setFont" on a Button. While I haven't tried this, I would think that if you set the text and later set the font it should still work correctly.

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