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How do you center the text in a JTextField??

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How do you center the text in a JTextField??

Apr 5th, 2005

I can do it with a JLabel or a JButton, but can't figure out how in a JTextField. I thought I had found it (txtLonDay.setHorizontalAlignment(JTextField.CENTER)), but that doesn't work the way I want. I want all text entered in the field to be centered, and also all text that is displayed in the field, having been produced by the program. These JTextFields are serving double duty; they accept input and also display the results of processing.

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Re: How do you center the text in a JTextField??

Apr 5th, 2005

subclass it to provide the behaviour you want.

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Re: How do you center the text in a JTextField??

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Originally Posted by jwenting

subclass it to provide the behaviour you want.

Thanks... Where could I find an example of that?

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Re: How do you center the text in a JTextField??

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Why don't you take the number of characters the textfield is long, and how many characters the input is long, and formulate a center point out of that...Of course I would rather use setHorizontalAlignment();

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Re: How do you center the text in a JTextField??

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Originally Posted by server_crash

Why don't you take the number of characters the textfield is long, and how many characters the input is long, and formulate a center point out of that...Of course I would rather use setHorizontalAlignment();

Thanks; I had considered doing that, but I (accidentally) found my real problem: The class I was filling the textfield from had an extra /t (tab) in it. When I took that out, everything worked the way I expected.

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