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Mercenary
Mercenary

Reputation: 2166

JLabel does not align correctly with GridLayout

The label does not align to the left of the center layout. If the GridLayout is not present, then it moves correctly. Is there a way to do it to move JLabel to the extreme left?

I've tried setHorizontalAlignment and setAlignmentX and both did not work

import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.GridLayout;

import javax.swing.BoxLayout;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.SwingConstants;

public class asd {
    public static void main(String[] args){
        JFrame frame = new JFrame();
        JPanel panel = new JPanel();
        panel.setLayout(new BoxLayout(panel, BoxLayout.Y_AXIS));
        JLabel lab = new JLabel("LABEL",SwingConstants.LEFT);
        //lab.setHorizontalAlignment(SwingConstants.CENTER);
        GridLayout grid = new GridLayout(3,3,2,1);
        JPanel yourGrid = new JPanel(grid);
        panel.add(lab);
        for(int i=0; i<3; i++){
            for(int j=0; j<3; j++){
                JButton but = new JButton();
                yourGrid.add(but);
            }
        }
        panel.add(yourGrid);
        frame.getContentPane().add(BorderLayout.CENTER,panel);
        frame.setVisible(true);
        frame.pack();
    }
}

Upvotes: 2

Views: 12068

Answers (1)

RamonBoza
RamonBoza

Reputation: 9038

When using BoxLayout you have to set the alignment for any of the elements inside.

As this example follows: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/layout/box.html

Fixing Alignment Problems

You have to set alignment to your lab and yourGrid

lab.setHorizontalAlignment(SwingConstants.LEFT);
yourGrid.setAlignmentX(Component.LEFT_ALIGNMENT);

Upvotes: 7

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