How can I possibly right align a text using drawString method

[ananthkolli]

Hello,

How can I possibly right align a text using drawString method with the given length of a text to display?

Thanks in advance.

[live_wire]

To use alignments etc. you would have to use the LayoutManagers.

But you are using drawString() method which paints on the cordinates that are specified. All you are doing is painting to a screen, there is no alignment for painting...

[sk_kireeti]

I agree with live_wire. But we can come up with a work around for this problem.

First calculate the length of the string and how many pixels each character will take. Based on this, arrange your string position. i.e., if L is the total available length, and X is number of pixels for each character and if you have N characters to be placed or painted, formula to find the starting point looks like this.

Startpoint = L - (N*X)

Hope it helps you to some extent. If you find any other solution, please let us know.

Here, I am not handling the case where starting point goes negative. But solving it is not an issue.

Thanks,
Krishna