JButton with Icon & text alignment issue

[ShardaD]

Hi,

I have a JButton with a background image & a text of button.
Now I want a text to be aligned Left & Image should remain at center
text should be on image.
For that I have write,

objButton.setHorizontalAlignment(SwingConstants.EA ST); //for left aligning
objButton.setHorizontalTextPosition(0); // to place text on the image ---- this is working fine
but I am not able to align text to left. It is still showing me at center.
Please help me out....

[Lil_Aziz1]

What layout are you using? I think only BoxLayout really takes your alignment specification into consideration.

[camickr]

EAST and 0, are not "proper" parameters. Read the API for the list of the proper variables to be used.

You can't do what you want directly with a JButton since text can only be painted on top of the image in the vertical and horizontal center of the button.

You can try using the JButton as a Container and add a label to it then you can position the label anywhere you want. For example you might do:

JButton button = new JButton( new ImageIcon(...) );
button.setLayout( new BorderLayout() );
JLabel label = new JLabel( "text" );
button.add( label );

[Michael Dunn]

> I have a JButton with a background image

if you're talking about a paintComponent image,
just use drawString with co-ords left of the image
for your text

[ShardaD]

I never used any layout for JButton, now by giving layout to button its working.
thanks :)