Button text on top of a button icon

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Parachute - 26 Feb 2007 15:10 GMT

Is there a possibility to place the JButton text _on top_ of a JButton
icon instead of next to it (which is the default if the constructor
new JButton(String text, ImageIcon icon) is used)?
I would like to be able to place the text above the image. If there
was a way to create an icon that not only includes a background colour
but also text on it, this would also be nice. But I wasn't able to
produce such an icon either (except separately in an image-editing
programme which I want to avoid).
Thanks for any help!

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Andrew Thompson - 26 Feb 2007 15:31 GMT

> Is there a possibility to place the JButton text _on top_ of a JButton
> icon instead of next to it (which is the default if the constructor
> new JButton(String text, ImageIcon icon) is used)?
> I would like to be able to place the text above the image.

Extend JButton and overide paintComponent()
(and probably getMinimumSize()/getPreferredSize()).

Andrew T.

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Parachute - 27 Feb 2007 07:23 GMT

Hi,

> Extend JButton and overide paintComponent()
> (and probably getMinimumSize()/getPreferredSize()).

I finally found an easier solution:

start_button = new JButton("Start", new GradientIcon(Color.blue,
Color.gray));
start_button.setHorizontalTextPosition(0);

Setting the horizontal text position to 0 places the text above the
image.

Thanks anyway!

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