drawStringShadow - Draw text on screen with a shadow!

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I'm in the sharing mood so here's a real simple but very useful one.

void drawStringShadow(Graphics g, String text, int x, int y)

It's often hard to read text on the canvas but adding a shadow to your text goes a long ways. It's simple but I don't see it many scripts and I assume it's because once people see there's not a native method or property for it they bail on it so here, have at it!

private void drawStringShadow(Graphics g, String text, int x, int y) {
    Color c = g.getColor();
    g.setColor(Color.BLACK);
    g.drawString(text, x + 1, y + 1);
    g.setColor(c);
    g.drawString(text, x, y);
}

Use it just as you would Graphics#drawString but include your graphics variable in the arguments and set the graphic's colour before calling drawStringShadow, just as you would normally:

g.setColor(new Color(168, 219, 168));
drawStringShadow(g, scriptStatus, drawX, drawY);

 

Hope this helps some newbies!