JButton text padding

[Krep Lock]

I'm fussing about with a GUI and find the JButton objects require way too much "padding" before they decide to display my button text in the desired font size. I wonder if anyone here knows how to reduce the blank spacing along the button sides to make more room for text?

[Gregg Bolinger]

You can change the Insets of a component. With a JButton it is as simple as something like:

button.setMargin(new Insets(1,1,1,1));

Where the constructor of Insets is top, left, bottom, right.

The API is a great place to find this kind of info.

[Krep Lock]

That answered it nicely, thanks. I did review the API docs, but expected something on the order of "padding" or "spacing". <shrug>