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Re: How to move text within Jlabels to the right

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On Friday, April 12, 2013 8:12:18 AM UTC-5, clusa...@aol.com wrote:
> I have two JLabels with different lenght of text. One JLabel is below the other. I'd like to get the two "colons" in them to line-up vertically.
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> I tried padding one with "space" characters, but that didn't line up perfectly. My guess is that certain characters have different widths.
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> (I tried the align vertical and horizontal properties, etc but they didn't work.)
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> Eg, In the below text of two JLabels, the addition of a space character didn't line up the two colons.
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> Label1     My First Name:
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> Label2         Last Name:
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> Thanks,

Maybe try a fixed-width font like Courier?

Thanks.

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How to move text within Jlabels to the right clusardi2k@aol.com - 2013-04-12 06:12 -0700
  Re: How to move text within Jlabels to the right Nigel Wade <nmw@ion.le.ac.uk> - 2013-04-12 15:07 +0100
  Re: How to move text within Jlabels to the right bob smith <bob@coolfone.comze.com> - 2013-04-12 11:47 -0700
    Re: How to move text within Jlabels to the right "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-04-13 15:20 -0400
  Re: How to move text within Jlabels to the right Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2013-04-12 13:51 -0700
  Re: How to move text within Jlabels to the right Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2013-04-12 20:56 -0700
  Re: How to move text within Jlabels to the right "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-04-13 15:16 -0400

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