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Thread: Center text in a JComponent?
- 04-17-2011, 08:09 PM #1
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The easiest way is to add a JLabel to it that has its horizontalAlignment property set to SwingConstants.CENTER. If you give the JComponent a BorderLayout and add the JLabel to the BorderLayout.CENTER position then it will fill the component. Otherwise, you may need to muck with FontMetrics, something I've not yet done.
- 04-17-2011, 09:01 PM #3
The JComponent isn't going to hold any other components though. The JComponent is just a canvas for the program to draw on, that's why im using drawString() to put the message on the screen. I also don't like messing with layout's I never got the hang of 'em. So I will look into FontMetrics and see what I can find about that. Thanks.
EDIT: Found a way using FontMetrics. Here is an example for future reference:
fontName = the name of the font you want to use
g = the graphics object your drawing on
width = the width of the area you want the text centered in
height = the height of the area you want the text centered in
Java Code:Font font = new Font(fontName,Font.PLAIN,16); FontMetrics fm = g.getFontMetrics(font); g.drawString("Hello",(width - fm.stringWidth("Hello")) / 2,(height - font.getSize()) / 2);
Last edited by Zman3359; 04-17-2011 at 09:29 PM.
- 04-17-2011, 10:15 PM #4
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I also don't like messing with layout's I never got the hang of 'em.
I agree with Fubarable, a JLabel is the way to go.
- 04-17-2011, 10:44 PM #5
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