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Re: How to move text within Jlabels to the right

From	Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: How to move text within Jlabels to the right
Date	2013-04-12 20:56 -0700
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<kkaks6$pa6$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On 4/12/2013 6:12 AM, clusardi2k@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.
>
> I tried padding one with "space" characters, but that didn't line up
> perfectly. My guess is that certain characters have different
> widths.
>
> (I tried the align vertical and horizontal properties, etc but they
> didn't work.)
>
> Eg, In the below text of two JLabels, the addition of a space
> character didn't line up the two colons.
>
> Label1     My First Name: Label2         Last Name:
>
> Thanks,
>

Here are two examples;

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.border.*;

public class test2 extends JPanel {
     public test2() {
         super(new GridBagLayout());

         GridBagConstraints c = new GridBagConstraints();
         c.gridx = 1;  c.fill = GridBagConstraints.HORIZONTAL;
         c.weightx = 1.0;

         Border b = BorderFactory.createLineBorder(Color.BLUE,1);

         // both labels will be the same size and the text will
         // be right aligned
         JLabel l1 = new JLabel("My First Name:",JLabel.RIGHT);
         l1.setBorder(b);
         JLabel l2 = new JLabel("Last Name:",JLabel.RIGHT);
         l2.setBorder(b);

         add(l1,c);
         add(l2,c);

         setPreferredSize(new Dimension(100,75));
     }

     public static void main(String[] args) {
         EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
             public void run() {
                 JFrame f = new JFrame();
                 f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);
                 f.setLayout(new GridBagLayout());
                 f.add(new test2());
                 f.setSize(400,300);
                 f.setVisible(true);
             }
         });
     }
}



import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.border.*;

public class test extends JPanel {
     public test() {
         // single label with two lines of text right aligned with css
         JLabel l = new JLabel(
          "<html><div style=float: right;>This is very long:<br>This
short:");
         l.setBorder(BorderFactory.createLineBorder(Color.BLUE,1));
         add(l);
     }

     public static void main(String[] args) {
         EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
             public void run() {
                 JFrame f = new JFrame();
                 f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);
                 f.add(new test(),BorderLayout.CENTER);
                 f.setSize(400,300);
                 f.setVisible(true);
             }
         });
     }
}

-- 

Knute Johnson

Thread

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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