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How do I present text vertically in a JLabel ? (Java 1.6)

I'm looking to have text display vertically, first letter at the bottom, last letter at the top, within a JLabel. Is this possible? ...

How to add a horizontal gap with a JLabel

I have a JLabel (actually, it is a JXLabel). I have put an icon and text on it. Now I wand to add some spacing on the left side of the component, like this: I DON'T accept suggestion to move the JLabel or add spacing by modifying the image. I just want to know how to do it with plain java code. ...

Can you set a permanent size for a JPanel inside of a JFrame?

Hey everyone, My current problem is that I have a JFrame with a 2x2 GridLayout. And inside one of the squares, I have a JPanel that is to display a grid. I am having a field day with the java swing library... take a look http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/9683/frameow2.jpg Java is automatically expanding each JLabel to fit the screen....

How can I turn off anti-aliasing for one specific JLabel?

How can I turn off anti-aliasing for one specific JLabel? It uses a very small font which might look better without anti-aliasing. If important, I'm using Java 1.5 on Mac OS X. ...

How can I make fonts resize with the window in Applet JLabel components?

As the question says... I can set the layout etc. up to resize with the window, but I've not worked out how to make the fonts resize. (Actually it might be the JLabel components themselves that aren't resizing, and constraining the fonts...) ...

Java JLabel - add a unique identifier

Hello all, Is there anyway to add an ID or a unique identifier to a JLabel? Thanks all ...

Rotate a Swing JLabel

I am currently trying to implement a Swing component, inheriting from JLabel which should simply represent a label that can be oriented vertically. Beginning with this: public class RotatedLabel extends JLabel { public enum Direction { HORIZONTAL, VERTICAL_UP, VERTICAL_DOWN } private Direction direction; I thought...

Null pointer exception JLabel

Why do I get a null pointer exception when I try and run this on a label: JLabel player1CurrentScore = new JLabel("" + matchPlay.returnPL1GamesWon(), JLabel.CENTER); Is it because I cannot have two strings concatenated like this? Ideally, I am trying to set the label as the score of the player ...

Multiline text in JLabel

How can I make the text of a JLabel extend onto another line? ...

Creating an Array of JLabels

I'm trying to create 5 Jlabels using netbeans GUI Design, the Labels are supposed to display 5 different values. I need to combine these 5 JLabels in 1 array of Labels. is there any options in the design that let me do that? ...

JPanel flipping out, FlowLayout not working as intended

Hi, The other day this code was working. I changed some things and re-ran it and now it doesn't work as intended. Obviously something I changed altered the behaviour, but I have gone back and reverted all of those changes and it still doesn't work. Disregarding that bit of information (to start), why the hell does this code not place a ...

Newline in JLabel

How can I display a newline in JLabel? For example, if I wanted: Hello World! blahblahblah This is what I have right now: JLabel l = new JLabel("Hello World!\nblahblahblah", SwingConstants.CENTER); This is what is displayed: Hello World!blahblahblah Forgive me if this is a dumb question, I'm just learning some Swing b...

Customizing Label Fonts in Swing

In my swing application, I have different types of text I'd like to display. For example, I want to display a heading text before a list of choices, something like: Select choice: a b I want the "Select Choice" label to use the "Heading" font (something I define), and the choices to use the "Choice" font. This pattern w...

Changing a JLabel's Value from a JSlider's Value

I have a single JPanel that contains a JSlider and a JLabel. I want to configure it so that when the JSlider's value is being changed by the user, that new value is reflected by the JLabel. I understand that I can fire ChangeEvents with the Slider, but I don't know how to add a ChangeListener to the JLabel. Here's a snippet of my code. ...

JWindow alway on top not getting focus events.

I have a jwindow(set to be always on top) that you can click to get a pop menu. If the user right clicks the window it shows the pop menu but then if the user clicks any other window(such as firefox) pop menu does not disappear. I tried to fix it by adding FocusListener on the jwindow, i implemented FocusListener and override pub...

JLabel on top of another JLabel

Is it possible to add a JLabel on top of another JLabel? Thanks. ...

Fading a JLabel that contains html

I can fade out a normal JLabel using a Timer, as follows: public static void main(String[] args) { JFrame frame = new JFrame(); // final JLabel label = new JLabel("<html><font color=red>Red</font><font color=blue>Blue</font>"); final JLabel label = new JLabel("Hello"); label.setOpaque(true); label...

ArrayList content to JLabel

Hi all, If i have an ArrayList of type Integer, containing numbers like 1,3,4,9,10 etc... How can i display those on a JLabel, not the sum, but all the numbers in a sequence. So the JLabel would display, in this case: 134910 Thank you in advance for any help. EDIT: Thank you all, ofcourse i should have thought about append. Anyways, ...

How to make JLabels start on the next line

JPanel pMeasure = new JPanel(); .... JLabel economy = new JLabel("Economy"); JLabel regularity = new JLabel("Regularity"); pMeasure.add(economy); pMeasure.add(regularity); ... When I run the code above I get this output: Economy Regularity How can I get this output, where each JLabel starts on a new line? Thanks Economy Regular...

Relative path in JLabel HTML

Hi, I am trying to make JLabel show an html which is referencing an image using a relative path. But I cannot make JLabel locate the image. It works fine when I am using absolute path. I have tried running the program from the command line or from eclipse and add dialog to show me where is the current working directory but for avail. I ...