JLabel Align Text

[OllyHal]

Hi,

I have some code here and I was wondering how to get the text in the JLabel to align to the left.

JLabel UsernameLbl = new JLabel("Username");
	JLabel PasswordLbl = new JLabel("Password");
	JLabel CPasswordLbl = new JLabel("Confirm Password");
	JLabel NLbl = new JLabel("");
	JTextField UsernameTxt = new JTextField(10);
	JPasswordField PasswordFld = new JPasswordField(10);
	JPasswordField CPFld = new JPasswordField(10);
	JButton okbtn = new JButton("OK");
	JButton CancelBtn = new JButton("Cancel");
	JFrame RFrame = new JFrame();
	JPanel RPanel = new JPanel(new GridBagLayout());
	JPanel CPanel = new JPanel(new GridBagLayout());
public void CreateRegisterGUI(){ 
	//Grid Layout
	  GridBagConstraints c = new GridBagConstraints(); 
	  GridBagConstraints b = new GridBagConstraints(); 
	  	
	  	
	  	
	  //center panel
	  c.insets = new Insets(10,10,10,10);

	  c.gridx = 0;
	    c.gridy = 1;
	    UsernameLbl.setHorizontalAlignment(SwingConstants.LEFT);
	    RPanel.add(UsernameLbl,c);
	    c.gridx = 0;
	    c.gridy = 2;
	    PasswordLbl.setAlignmentX(SwingConstants.LEFT);
	    RPanel.add(PasswordLbl,c);
	    c.gridx = 0;
	    c.gridy = 3;
	    CPasswordLbl.setAlignmentX(SwingConstants.LEFT);
	    RPanel.add(CPasswordLbl,c);
	  	c.gridx = 1;
	  	c.gridy = 1;  
	  	RPanel.add(UsernameTxt,c);
	  	c.gridx = 1;
	  	c.gridy = 2	;	
	  	RPanel.add(PasswordFld,c);
	  	c.gridx = 1;
	  	c.gridy = 3	;	
	  	RPanel.add(CPFld,c);
	  	c.gridx = 0;
	  	c.gridy = 4;
	  	RPanel.add(okbtn,c);
	  	c.gridx = 1;
	  	c.gridy = 4;
	  	
	  	RPanel.add(CancelBtn,c);
	  	
	  	//bottom panel 	
	  		  	
	  	CPanel.add(NLbl, b);
	  	
	  	RFrame.add(RPanel,BorderLayout.CENTER);
	  	RFrame.add(CPanel,BorderLayout.AFTER_LAST_LINE);
	  	RFrame.pack();
		RFrame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
	  	RFrame.setSize(450,210);
	  	RFrame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
	  	RFrame.setVisible(true);
	  	RFrame.setResizable(false);
	  	
	}

Thanks in advance :D

[pbrockway2]

I was wondering how to get the text in the JLabel to align to the left.

I was under the impression that unless you did something to change it the text *does* align to the left.

... after checking the API docs ... "The label is aligned against the leading edge of its display area, and centered vertically" which I guess, in my left-to-right part of the world makes it left aligned.

Perhaps it is the label rather than its text that is not aligned as you want. I would guess you are not using the GridBagConstraints correctly (because that's easy to do :) But that's only a guess. It would help if you posted a Short, Self Contained, Correct Example and described the intended behaviour. (It would make the code easier to follow if your example used standard Java coding conventions and had variables start with a lower case letter.)