Finding the width of rendered text - Wintriss Tech

gistfile1.java

// Create the font and pass it to the  Graphics context
g2.setFont(new Font("Monospaced", Font.BOLD, 24));

// Get measures needed to center the message
FontMetrics fm = g2.getFontMetrics();

// How many pixels wide is the string
int msg_width = fm.stringWidth(msg);