I'm trying to create a JButton
with an icon and some text in it. My problem is that I want the icon to be left-aligned and the text right-aligned (It isn't necessary to be right-aligned, but I don't want the text to stick to the icon).
Not being able to do this on my own, I tried a slightly different solution. I used the iconTextGap
to create some space between the icon and the text, what worked fine in principle, but when I create multiple buttons, which all have the width of the widest, the icon isn't at the very left anymore (except in the button with the longest text).
I included a code to demonstrate that:
import java.awt.GridBagConstraints;
import java.awt.GridBagLayout;
import java.awt.Insets;
import java.io.File;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import javax.swing.BorderFactory;
import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.SwingConstants;
public class Main{
private JFrame frame;
private JPanel buttonPanel;
private GridBagConstraints constraints;
public Main() throws MalformedURLException{
frame = new JFrame();
buttonPanel = new JPanel();
frame.add(buttonPanel);
buttonPanel.setLayout(new GridBagLayout());
constraints = new GridBagConstraints();
constraints.insets = new Insets(5, 5, 3, 5);
constraints.fill = GridBagConstraints.HORIZONTAL;
constraints.gridx = 0;
constraints.gridy = 0;
String[] text = { "some Text", "this text is longer" };
for (int i = 0; i < text.length; i++) {
JButton button= new JButton(text[i], new ImageIcon(new File("icon.png").toURI().toURL()));
button.setAlignmentX(SwingConstants.WEST);
button.setIconTextGap(30);
button.setBorder(BorderFactory.createEmptyBorder(5, 5, 5, 10));
buttonPanel.add(button, constraints);
constraints.gridy++;
}
frame.pack();
frame.setVisible(true);
}
public static void main(String[] args){
try {
new Main();
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
Does anyone know of a way to have the icon at the left end and have some space between the icon and the text (or the text right-aligned)?
Have a look at JButton#setHorizontalTextPosition and JButton#setHorizontalAlignment
And just because it might be helpful JButton#setVerticalTextPosition and JButton#setVerticalAlignment