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Re: to make text compact

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Ray Ma wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I hope to make the text on the JButton compact. This is comparable to
> set the "internal margin" attribute for a Text box in the Microsoft
> WORD. The default margin is none zero. If you set one of the left/
> right/top/bottom to be zero, a little more text can be displayed in
> one line/column when the Text box size is not changed.
> 
> I didn't find where can I set this for the JButton. The JTextComponent
> has a "setMargin(Insets m) " method to achieve this. But JButton is
> not a subclass of JTextComponent. JButton has setFont() method, but
> font attribute doesn't seem to deal with the text line margin. Font
> class itself has "getLineMetrics()". I guess it's related but there's
> no "setLineMetrics" so that I can set the internal text margin.
> 
> Currently, my Button has to be certain large to display its default
> font-size (12, Times new roman) text. If I shrink the button, text
> will be "..." but the total button size is actually enough to display
> the text, if I can set the line' left and right margin =0; Besides, I
> must use "center" alignment for the text.
> 
> Anyone has idea?

See Knute Johnson's post on this question the first time it went up.

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Lew

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Re: to make text compact "Lew" <lew@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:37 +0000
  Re: to make text compact "Ray Ma" <ray.ma@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:37 +0000

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