07:57 pm - sparkymark - Centering a JLabel in Swing: help please! I'm sure this should be simple but I can't figure it out. I have two JLabels that I want to display on the same horizontal line. The first should be at the left extreme of the line, and the second one in the centre.I can't simply use BorderLayout because, as the canonical example at http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/layout/border.html shows, "Button 2" isn't actually in the centre, its just in between buttons 3 and 5 taking up as much room as possible. Buttons 3 and 5 are not the same size so the text of Button 2, even when horizontally-aligned to be in the centre of the button, is still not in the centre of the entire line.Some sort of horizontal-glue looks appropriate, but there's no way to get something into the centre with Boxlayout is there?I would hope I don't I need to do absolute positioning (or make an invisible JLabel the same size of the first one to put at the LINE_END to force the CENTER into the centre: that looks desperate).
sparkymark - Centering a JLabel in Swing: help please! I'm sure this should be simple but I can't figure it out. I have two JLabels that I want to display on the same horizontal line. The first should be at the left extreme of the line, and the second one in the centre.I can't simply use BorderLayout because, as the canonical example at http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/layout/border.html shows, "Button 2" isn't actually in the centre, its just in between buttons 3 and 5 taking up as much room as possible. Buttons 3 and 5 are not the same size so the text of Button 2, even when horizontally-aligned to be in the centre of the button, is still not in the centre of the entire line.Some sort of horizontal-glue looks appropriate, but there's no way to get something into the centre with Boxlayout is there?I would hope I don't I need to do absolute positioning (or make an invisible JLabel the same size of the first one to put at the LINE_END to force the CENTER into the centre: that looks desperate).