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1. How do I present text vertically in a JLabel ? (Java 1.6)    stackoverflow.com

I'm looking to have text display vertically, first letter at the bottom, last letter at the top, within a JLabel. Is this possible?

2. Selecting text from a JLabel?    stackoverflow.com

Is it possible to enable the selection of text from a JLabel? If not, what's the best alternative control to use, and how can it be configured to appear like ...

3. Java change label text from another frame    stackoverflow.com

I'm writing a server/client program. In the server, when I click a button some infomations will be sent to client and show on a jLabel. But the problem is when the ...

4. make a JLabel wrap it's text by setting a max width    stackoverflow.com

I have a JLabel which has a lot of text on it. Is there a way to make the JLabel have a max width so that it will wrap the text ...

5. Swing: JLabel which shortens too long text in the middle    stackoverflow.com

Normally a left-orientated JLabel shortens text at the right by adding periods, e.g. Hello wo.... Anyone knows an JComponent (TableCellRenderer is not sufficient) which can shorten text in the middle (Hel...rld), ...

6. JLabel text disappears after less than a second !    stackoverflow.com

I made a JFrame in netbeans ( it currently contains only one JLabel) which connects to the database and gets a field and display it in the JLabel. when I run the ...

7. JLabel paints new text over the old one, after set text is called    stackoverflow.com

I have a progress dialog window, which contains 3 JComponents: JLabel, JProgressBar, JButton, which is used as default dialog window in different parts of the application from different threads. So when ...

8. Setting text of JLabel with an array/loop    stackoverflow.com

How can I set the text of a JLabel with a loop? For example:

String cur[]= {"A","B","C"};
JLabel lblA,lblB,lblC;

for(i=0;i < cur.length;i++){
  lbl+cur[i].setText("something");
}
what should go in the "lbl+cur[i]" part so it sets the ...

9. JLabel width indipendent from text lenght    stackoverflow.com

Hi
I have a JLabel in a horizontally resizable JPanel. The JLabel autoresizes his width to fit the JPanel. If i insert a long text (such as "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa") the JLabel changes his ...





10. Move label and text box to left in Gridbaglayout    stackoverflow.com

Can anybody of you good people to help me, I just cannot to move txtIPAddress and label ip Address to left, it is cutted now. I tried to experiment with weightx ...

11. how to display text in JFrame using netbeans? and how to clear text in JFrame?    stackoverflow.com

how to display text in JFrame using netbeans? and how to clear text in JFrame?

12. Get info from a text file to JLabel    stackoverflow.com

hi good day to all of you! I am creating a quizzer and i have some problem in my code..How can I display the questions in the JLabel from the txtfile?Can ...

13. Adding label and text box control to GUI    stackoverflow.com

I would like to know what code to insert and where to add a simple label that can just say the word "Label" and a input text box that I can ...

14. Changing the location of a label and text box    stackoverflow.com

Right now the label is on top of the text box. I would like to be able to set the location of the text box and label so that the ...

15. JLabel - how to hide a text?    stackoverflow.com

I have JLabel with an icon and text. Is there any possibility to hide only JLabel's text? I don't want to hide whole component (setVisible(false)), but only text, so an icon ...

16. Text of JLabel moves out of JPanel    stackoverflow.com

I have a JPanel with specific size. I have added a JLabel on it. Now the text of JLabel is dynamic and comes from the database. When I add this data ...





17. How do I right align text within a JLabel?    stackoverflow.com

I have the following code:

JPanel panel = new JPanel();
panel.setLayout(new BoxLayout(panel, BoxLayout.Y_AXIS));

for(int xx =0; xx < 3; xx++)
{
    JLabel label = new JLabel("String");
    label.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(300,15));
  ...

18. How to display changing text in Java Swing (ie, display time with changing seconds)    stackoverflow.com

I'm looking for a way to display the current date and time on a JFrame as a JLabel but have it update automagically. Once it is drawn to the pane, I ...

19. Swing JLabel text change on the running application    stackoverflow.com

I have a Swing window which contains a button a text box and a JLabel named as flag. According to the input after I click the button, the label should change ...

20. How to center the text in a JLabel?    stackoverflow.com

despite many tries I can't get the result that I would like to see - text centered within the JLabel and the JLabel somewhat centered in the BorderLayout. I said "somewhat" ...

21. Changing the text of a JLabel and status of JMenuItem during runtime    stackoverflow.com

I am developing an application in which I would like to display the username on the top of the screen after the user has logged into the system. Also I need ...

22. How to change the text of a JLabel in a while loop    stackoverflow.com

I want to make a clock That changes the text of JLabel and i am having trouble with getting the text to change. Thanks Obiedog!!!! Heres my code for the clock if that ...

23. Change label text before file read happens    stackoverflow.com

I haven't used java in awhile and I am trying to do something like this in one main class:

// do stuff
this.label.setText("Status: IDLE");
// do things
this.label.setText("Status: LOADING..."); // set to loading right before ...

24. How to display JLabel text for 1 second?    stackoverflow.com

I am wanting my error messages to display in a JLabel temporarily, then set the text back to "". But instead it looks like it just skips over setting the message. ...

25. Java JLabel text in middle of vertical axis    stackoverflow.com

I have a JLabel that contains variable text in a certain location in my GUI. The problem is that the text gets displayed at the bottom of the space where ...

26. Setting JLabel Text at Runtime    stackoverflow.com

I am pretty new to Java(about 2 weeks in), and I am trying to set the text of a JLabel. The only problem is I am doing calculations in another class ...

27. Calculate Height of JLabel text based on specific Width    stackoverflow.com

Im working on a Marquee JPanel ,and im using a JLabel to scroll Text within the JPanel by Decreasing the Y of JLabel inside the JPanel . The issue is i need ...

28. Stretch a JLabel text    stackoverflow.com

Is there a way to make a JLabel's text stretch to 100% height? I need the text to update when the component's size changes as well. I saw some solution that ...

30. changing JLabel text from other class    forums.netbeans.org

Hello, I have 2 classes one is the application and the other one the login screen, when i start the application i create a JFrame with the login screen. My login ...

31. Blinking Text in JLabel    coderanch.com

32. UNDERLINE FOR LABEL TEXT    coderanch.com

33. How do I make the text in JLabel wrap?    coderanch.com

35. To get the focus around the text in a label like in a button    coderanch.com

Hi How do I get a rectangular focus around the text of a label,(when you click on a swing button, a rectangle appears around the text of the button to show that it has recieved focus, the respective properties for the button are : setRequestFocusEnabled(boolean) & setFocusPainted(boolean)) But, the label does'nt have the setFocusPaint property which draws the rect enclosing the ...

36. display text on form without label    coderanch.com

hi. I am trying to make a telnet client, so I have to be able to draw text anywhere on the form, prefurably by setting coordinates, and change the color of the text (without previously drawn text's color being changed). I cant seem to figure out how to do this.. Tryed using Graphics, but from what I can see, it can ...

37. problem in static JLabel text    coderanch.com

38. 2 lines of text for a label?    coderanch.com

39. JLabel for more than 1 line of text!    coderanch.com

Here is some code I am playing with: import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; import javax.swing.*; import javax.swing.event.*; public class SubChoicesPanel extends JPanel //Made the changes previously posted. Changed all the Labels { //to JLabels. Note, I used the Color.black to set the panel's JLabel subChoiceLabels[]=new JLabel[100]; //background color, instead of new Color(0,0,0). Also, I had to static String subChoices[][]= //set the JLabels ...

40. Resizing JLabel to fit text    coderanch.com

41. Text And Wordwrap In java.awt.Label    coderanch.com

Hello Friends, As Iam doing my first java project, Iam facing many problems in buiding interface part of it which is based on AWT. I have created a Frame of size (400w,400h) and placed a Label in it. When I tried to set text for that Label, whole text is not visible, when the text is large. I want the text ...

42. Centering Text Label    coderanch.com

43. JLabel and text    coderanch.com

44. howto prevent JLabel text selection    coderanch.com

45. Changing Text of JLabel Daynamically    coderanch.com

46. Truncated text in JLabel    coderanch.com

48. Truncated text in Label    coderanch.com

As a follow up to Nathan's post....if you want very explicit control over where your label appears on the screen, use GridBagLayout. Its the more complicated of all layouts, but its the only way you can essentially boss the jvm around and make your components appear where you want them to consistently. IMHO, the only other Layout class that has any ...

49. Truncated Text in Label    coderanch.com

50. NPE when setting text in jLabel    coderanch.com

52. JLabel text    coderanch.com

53. How to display Text String at the bottom of JLabel??    coderanch.com

Hi, friends: I met a problem that I tried to use setText to display textString at the bottom of JLabel, label1, here for label1.setText("This is Label1 Jlabel- Pls display at the bottom of this label1"); I hope to see this whole string at the bottom of this label1, here label1 add another JPanel as its child. but so far I cannot ...

54. Hide part of text on JLabel    coderanch.com

Hi I have a frame using gridlayout with 240 labels packed to fullscreen. On each label i have several fields seprated with spaces which shall constantly change. How can i make a part of the text on Jlabel invisible to the user as i want to use that field for further manipulations and i can't use another frame because of memory ...

55. JLabel - How to get text on two lines?    coderanch.com

56. how to fix the JLabel Text value in Swings    coderanch.com

I want to fix the length of the JLabel text in my application. For example: JLabel test=new JLabel("Selected File Testing"); If i use the above string,then my design gets collapsed. how to fix the length of the JLabel Text? Please help me to resolve this issue... here is my code... getContentPane().setLayout(new GridBagLayout()); getContentPane().setBounds(500, 300, 500, 300); getContentPane().setBackground(Color.decode("#C1CDAD")); GridBagConstraints c = new ...

57. How to wrap text in JLabel    coderanch.com

58. I have blank squares instead of Farsi characters as the text of MenuItem label on PopupMenu    coderanch.com

Hi As i started programming by jdk6, i had no problem in text components neither in awt nor in swing. But for labels or titles of AWT components, yes : I couldn't have Farsi characters displayable on AWTs just as simple as Swing by typing them into the source code. lets check this SSCCE : import javax.swing.*; import java.awt.*; import java.io.*; ...

59. How to Achieve Right-to-Left Text in JLabel ?    coderanch.com

JDK 1.5.0_05 on Windows 2000 Using method "setComponentOrientation" appears to have no effect. The label needs to display a combination of Latin and Hebrew text as well as punctuation and digits. If the first character is Latin, the text is not displayed as intended. For example ABC123 is displayed as ABC123 Tried using HTML and the "dir" attribute of the HTML ...

60. removing space for text in JLabel . . .    coderanch.com

import java.awt.*; import javax.swing.*; import javax.swing.border.LineBorder; public class LabelAndIcon { public static void main(String[] args) { SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() { public void run() { JLabel label = new JLabel(new Icon() { public void paintIcon(Component c, Graphics g, int x, int y) { g.setColor(Color.BLUE); g.fillRect(x, y, 32, 32); } public int getIconWidth() { return 32; } public int getIconHeight() { return 32; } ...

62. Inclined Text of JLabel    coderanch.com

63. Text box to Label & Centering Text    coderanch.com

I'm making a score keeping program, and above each score, I have a text box for the team name. What I want is for the text box to change into a label when a user hits enter when editing the text or clicks away from the text box. Likewise, when a user clicks back onto the label, I want the label ...

64. Make a text in Jlabel down to next Line    java-forums.org

How to make a text in Jlabel down to next Line ?? I have a String and don't know how long it will, and set that String to the JLabel, and the problem is, when the String is too long, the Text in JLabel will appear "....." How can we make the text auto drop down to next line??? Sorry, my ...

65. Problem altering text in JLabel    java-forums.org

Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.NullPointerException at test.MyWindow$mainListener.actionPerformed(MyWindow.java:132) at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:1995) at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2318) at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(DefaultButtonModel.java:387) at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(DefaultButtonModel.java:242) at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicButtonListener.mouseReleased(BasicButtonListener.java:236) at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java:6041) at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(JComponent.java:3265) at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:5806) at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:2058) at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:4413) at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2116) at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4243) at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:4322) at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:3986) at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:3916) at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2102) at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:2440) at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4243) at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:599) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:273) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:183) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:173) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:168) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:160) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:121)

66. How to make JLabel refresh its text data?    forums.oracle.com

67. Setting text of a JLabel in an array    forums.oracle.com

68. text wrap or line break with jlabels?    forums.oracle.com

69. Trying to change jlabel text from another class    forums.oracle.com

I posted this question this morning and I was wondering if someone could clarify this for me. I have a JFrame form that I made using netbeans. I have a button and a label... I set the event handler so that when the button is pushed it calls a constructor from another class ie: private void jButton1MouseClicked(java.awt.event.MouseEvent evt) { tryme but ...

71. How to set JLabel text from an array    forums.oracle.com

I several JLabels that correspond to the elements in an array. Is there a way to loop through the array and set the text of the labels for example: Label names are description1JLabel throught description10JLabel the text in array[ 0 ] would be set to the first label array[ 1 ] to the second and so on.

72. Text from labels in JPanel    forums.oracle.com

I am fairly new to Java and have a run into a problem with a program I am working on. I have a JPanel that contains several JLabels is there a way to loop through the Labels and add the text from each to an element in a string array? Thanks in advance for any help.

73. align text in a JLabel to right    forums.oracle.com

74. Rendering Text on JLabel    forums.oracle.com

I am displaying a words on a JLabel and i would like to render the words and make it look like those seen on the image verification web pages on yahoo and google.Anyone has any idea on how i could do that?I am new to java and a coded sample would be a good idea.

75. Display superscript text on JLabel    forums.oracle.com

76. Warning trying to underline JLabel's text?    forums.oracle.com

3) Required fields on the form get a red asterisk for the label's icon that get turned off after the field had been filled in. This is a requirement for us, but I gather not an uncommon one. The presenter informs the ui that a particular field isRequired(true/false). The ui looks up the label for that field and sets him to ...

77. refresh jLabel text    forums.oracle.com