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RamonBoza
RamonBoza

Reputation: 9038

JButton with icon and text but hide text

For automatic test purposes is a must to have the text set because is the identification used by robot to navigate though screens. I need to create a JButton with text and icon but only show the icon.

I have tried several things:

  1. use of setHideActionText(true):

    jButton button = new JButton(icon);
jButton.setHideActionText(true);
jButton.setText(_messageManager.getMessage(messageKey));

  2. setHoritzontalTextPosition

  3. setVerticalAlignment

but none worked.

Anyone has any idea on how to solve this?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 6687

Answers (5)

homebeaver
homebeaver

Reputation: 1

Button text not shown with painted icons!

The code:

        Icon icon = new PlayIcon();
        JButton play = new JButton("PlayIcon with text", icon);

You expect a text with the button. But it is not shown! Maybe your icon paints itsself like this:

public class PlayIcon implements Icon ...

    public void paintIcon(Component c, Graphics g, int x, int y) {
        Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D) g;

        g2d.setColor(color==null ? c.getForeground() : color);
        GeneralPath path = new GeneralPath();
        path.moveTo(x + 2, y + 2);
        path.lineTo(x + width - 2, y + height / 2);
        path.lineTo(x + 2, y + height - 2);
        path.lineTo(x + 2, y + 2);
        g2d.fill(path);
        g2d.dispose(); // <===========
...

Then the problem is the dispose() call in the PlayIcon class. Remove it!

The result will be like this

See: github issue

Upvotes: 0

user2575725
user2575725

Reputation:

I need to create a JButton with text and icon but only show the icon.

You could have possibly used setActionCommand()

jButton.setActionCommand("Button 1");

Or, you may also use setName()

jButton.setName("Button 1");

Upvotes: 4

Costis Aivalis
Costis Aivalis

Reputation: 13728

You could avoid the text of the JButton completely if your work with the TooltipText: 

   jButton1.setIcon(new ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("/money.png")));
   jButton1.setToolTipText("Foo");  
   ....
   jButton1.getToolTipText(); // use instead of getText()

Upvotes: 0

jeroen_de_schutter
jeroen_de_schutter

Reputation: 1883

I would suggest to set the size of the Font of the button text to 0. And if that does not work, set the size to the lowest possible value and the color of the text equal to the background color of the button (you might have to tweak the layout a little afterwards ...)

Upvotes: 0

Devolus
Devolus

Reputation: 22074

You want to have the text only in the test environment but not in production?

Then you could so something like this:

setText("");
if(test)
   setText("sometext");

Upvotes: 0

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