Re: How to set the line height of a Label?

Question

In Java 8, set the graphic of the label to a TextFlow with line spacing set.
Text text = new Text("This is my\nspaced text.");
TextFlow flow = new TextFlow(text);
flow.setLineSpacing(13); // default font size is 13px, so this effectively makes the text double spaced, e.g. one line of text, one blank line, another line of text, another blank line, etc.
Label label = new Label();
label.setGraphic(flow);
For Java 7, I don't know how you would set line spacing for a label.

Answer 1

In Java 8 you can do it even more simply:
Label label = new Label("This is my\nspaced text");
label.setLineSpacing(13);
The line spacing property can also be set with css:
.label {
-fx-line-spacing: 13;
Of course, none of that actually helps to do this in Java 7. If you're not wrapping the text, you can fairly easily split the text at new lines, and add a label for each line to a VBox, specifying the spacing for the VBox as required.
If you're wrapping text, trying something similar gets ugly rather quickly.