Picture Alignment in JOptionPane

**Visions** · 10-07-2012, 08:54 PM

I am making a dice game and am using pictures to display both the user's and the computer's dice roll, but I can't get the computer's dice picture to appear on the right side.

Picture Alignment in JOptionPane-dicegame.png

Here is my code:

Java Code:

diceLabel.setIcon(new ImageIcon("<html><DIV align='right'>C:\\Users\\default.default-VAIO\\Downloads\\
Dice Game\\DiceFace" + compRoll + ".png</DIV></html>"));

**DarrylBurke** · 10-07-2012, 09:23 PM

I haven't come across an ImageIcon constructor that takes a HTML String. Where did you get that code?

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**Visions** · 10-07-2012, 09:33 PM

I just wrote it up because I thought it might fit, since I had to use html code to do the breaks in the text.

**Visions** · 10-07-2012, 09:40 PM

I got it to do this, but I want the computer's die to be on the right side of the text.

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I used this code:

Java Code:

if(compRoll > userRoll) {
        	JLabel diceLabel = new JLabel("<html>Your roll: " + userRoll + "<br />Computer's Roll: " + compRoll + "<br />You lost to the computer.</html>");
        	ImageIcon icon = new ImageIcon("C:\\Users\\default.default-VAIO\\Downloads\\Dice Game\\DiceFace" + compRoll + ".png");
        	diceLabel = new JLabel("<html>Your roll: " + userRoll + "<br />Computer's Roll: " + compRoll + "<br />You lost to the computer.</html>", icon, JLabel.RIGHT);
        	diceLabel.setIcon(new ImageIcon("C:\\Users\\default.default-VAIO\\Downloads\\Dice Game\\DiceFace" + userRoll + ".png"));
            JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, diceLabel, "Results", JOptionPane.INFORMATION_MESSAGE, icon);
        }

**Fubarable** · 10-07-2012, 09:42 PM

How about using the JLabel's API. There you'll find methods such as setHorizontalTextPosition(...) that can likely help you.

**Visions** · 10-07-2012, 10:27 PM

I tried that, but the comp's image is staying right next to the user's image

**Visions** · 10-07-2012, 10:59 PM

This is the closest i've been able to come.. I at least want them on the same line.

Picture Alignment in JOptionPane-dice-game-3.png

**DarrylBurke** · 10-08-2012, 04:10 AM

You can put 3 JLabels in a JPanel and pass that as the message argument, you know.

To get things where you want them to appear, see this Lesson: Laying Out Components Within a Container (The Java™ Tutorials > Creating a GUI With JFC/Swing)

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