Text Alignment

[may tan]

hello..

can anyone tells me how to align my texts in text box to the center??

eg: i got 1 text field, when user input texts, it will appear in the center.. rather by defaults (at e left side)..

[Michael Dunn]

textField.setHorizontalAlignment(JTextField.CENTER);

you will find answers to most questions like this in the api docs, which
you can download and have on your pc.

[may tan]

Hello.. thanks for your response..

i have this code in my program:

band1 = new Label("Color of Band 1", Label.CENTER);
text1 = new TextField(3);
text1.setBackground(Color.black);
text1.setHorizontalAlignment(TextField.CENTER);

pls look at my last sentence: "text1.setHorizontalAlignment(TextField.CENTER);"

why it doesn't seem to work? as in e texts are still not aligned to the cneter..
[ August 13, 2005: Message edited by: may tan ]

[Michael Dunn]

my previous reply is for swing's JTextField

as you are using awt, you'll probably have to do it manually
i.e. calculating the string length and adding a padding - remember to
strip the padding when calling getText().
if not using a monospaced font, look up the FontMetrics class for calculation
of the string length in pixels etc

[may tan]

hmm.. is there really no other coding such that when user type in something in the textfield, all the texts will appear in the center instead of by default(left side)?

[Michael Dunn]

I don't use awt components enough to be sure, but I doubt it.

I'm sure this question would have been asked previously, so you're probably
better off searching for a definitive answer - try this forum, then the sun
forum, then google.