How get area covered by text drawn on a jpanel?

Question

I'm trying to get the full area that a string of text covers when drawn on a JPanel. I use the below code and the width seems to be correct, but the height is wrong (I use it to make the mouse cursor change when over it). I can't seem to get the exact location of every pixel of the characters. It's either too low or misses the bottom part (I've been altering the code a lot). What am I doing wrong?
//Widest line
int widest = 0;
int totalHeight = 0;
//Loop through lines and calculate width and height
StringTokenizer lines = new StringTokenizer( text, LINE_BREAK );
//The actual visual bounds of the characters
Rectangle2D visualBounds = font.createGlyphVector( fontRenderContext, text ).getVisualBounds();
//Line metrics (info on height, ascent, descent
LineMetrics metrics = font.getLineMetrics( text, fontRenderContext );
//Only have one line, so use GlyphVector
if ( lines.countTokens() == 1 )
     widest = ( int ) visualBounds.getWidth();
     totalHeight = ( int ) visualBounds.getHeight();
else
     while ( lines.hasMoreTokens() )
          String line = lines.nextToken();
          //Get boundary
          Rectangle2D bounds = font.getStringBounds( line, fontRenderContext );
          //Set the width
          widest = Math.max( widest, ( int ) bounds.getWidth() );
          //Add to the total height
          totalHeight += bounds.getHeight();
     //Need to remove any extra lineheight for last line (since is invisible)
     totalHeight -= ( int ) ( metrics.getHeight() - visualBounds.getHeight() );
//Set descent
descent = ( int ) metrics.getDescent();
//Adjust y for descent as Graphics draws a string from the baseline and we want the bottom
y = y + descent;
//Set width, height
width = widest;
height = totalHeight;

Answer 1

DarrylBurke wrote:
To get a more exact bounding rectangle, use TextLayout.
[http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5241409]
dbThat's weird - it works! The problem is when i use the LineMetrics, the value it gives for getAscent() is actually the text's height! TextLayout has this correctly as the height.