net.nexttext.behaviour.standard
Class Kern

java.lang.Object
  net.nexttext.behaviour.AbstractAction
      net.nexttext.behaviour.standard.Kern

All Implemented Interfaces:

Action

public class Kern
extends AbstractAction

Resets the spacing between children of a textObjectGroup. It uses the width of the bounding box of the children of that group plus a constant passed in at construction to space the children.

When applied to a word this operation is known as Kerning, it was originally designed to do just this, hence the name.

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from interface net.nexttext.behaviour.Action

Action.ActionResult

Field Summary

float

kern

Constructor Summary

Kern(float kern)

Method Summary

Action.ActionResult

behave(TextObject to) Default behave method for single objects.

Methods inherited from class net.nexttext.behaviour.AbstractAction

behave, behave, complete, getDisplayName, getRequiredProperties, makeBehaviour, properties, setDisplayName

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

kern

public float kern

Constructor Detail

Kern

public Kern(float kern)

Method Detail

behave

public Action.ActionResult behave(TextObject to)

Description copied from class: AbstractAction

Default behave method for single objects.

This method does nothing; it should be overriden by subclasses if they wish to support actions on single objects.

Trying to call this method on an Action which doesn't override it will throw an UnsupportedActionException.

Specified by:

behave in interface Action

Overrides:

behave in class AbstractAction