Re: Label clipping using Nimbus L&F

From	Tom <tom400f@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.gui
Subject	Re: Label clipping using Nimbus L&F
Date	2011-08-20 11:07 +0000
Organization	Aioe.org NNTP Server
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On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:11:17 -0700, Roedy Green wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:30:14 -0700 (PDT), Fred
> <fred.l.kleinschmidt@boeing.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
> someone who said :
> 
>>When I use Nimbus Look-and-feel, often the text in a JLabel, JButton, or
>>JToggleButton will be partially clipped. This does not happen with Metal
>>or Motif.
>>Any suggestions how to solve this?
>  
>  
> 
> see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jlabel.html
> 
> The trick is to use an empty border to put a little padding around the
> text that will suffice for all the different LAFs you use.
> 
> A related problem is that different type faces 10 point font vary
> considerably in size.  I work out adjustment factors for all possible
> fonts.

Well whatever works but if I'm on the right lines then the OP's problem
relates to an inadequate GUI layout that does not allow components to
assume their preferred size (even if they are subsequently not
supposed to be resizeable).

If changes in L&F (or even just default font sizes) mean that things
then get clipped probably their containers are preventing them from
being big enough.

Cue layout discussions, use of TableLayout etc
http://www.clearthought.info/sun/products/jfc/tsc/articles/tablelayout/index.html

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Label clipping using Nimbus L&F Fred <fred.l.kleinschmidt@boeing.com> - 2011-08-19 13:30 -0700
  Re: Label clipping using Nimbus L&F Tom <tom400f@gmail.com> - 2011-08-19 22:07 +0000
    Re: Label clipping using Nimbus L&F "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2011-08-20 03:58 -0400
  Re: Label clipping using Nimbus L&F Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-08-19 17:11 -0700
    Re: Label clipping using Nimbus L&F Tom <tom400f@gmail.com> - 2011-08-20 11:07 +0000
  Re: Label clipping using Nimbus L&F "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2011-08-20 03:54 -0400

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