Drawing Text on JButton Icon

[tim8w]

Hi,
I want to have the Text of the JButton written on top of the Icon. I assume that this can't be done without customizing the JButton. Does anyone know how to do this?

[DarrylBurke]

Read the API for JButton, not missing the methods inherited from Abstractbutton and also go through the tutorial linked from those APIs.

db

[tim8w]

db,
From the documentation, I gathered I needed to do something like the code below which worked:


ImageIcon BlueButtonIcon = createImageIcon("Blue.gif");
JButton myBtn;
JLabel myBtnlbl;

myBtn = new JButton(RedButtonIcon);
myBtn.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
myBtnlbl= new JLabel("My Text");
myBtnlbl.setForeground(Color.white);
myBtnlbl.setHorizontalAlignment(SwingConstants.CEN TER);
myBtn.add(myBtnlbl);


Thanks!

[DarrylBurke]

Why are you adding a JLabel to a JButton? There's API that aligns the button's text relative to the Icon. Also, if you need to be sure of the alignment under any Look-and-Feel, set all alignments explicitly.

db

[tim8w]

db,
Am I missing something? All the API alignments I could find aligned the text around the Icon, not over it...

tim8w

[DarrylBurke]

There can't be a clearer hint than this:

There's API that aligns the button's text relative to the Icon.

Part of that sentence is copied from the method descriptions in the API. Set them to CENTER.

db

[tim8w]

db,
Got it. Did the following:

ImageIcon GreyButtonIcon = createImageIcon("Grey.gif");

btnA = new JButton("A", GreyButtonIcon);
btnA.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(48,48));
btnA.setForeground(Color.white);
btnA.setHorizontalTextPosition(SwingConstants.CENTER);
btnA.setBackground(Color.black);

[DarrylBurke]

Good show!

db