Displaying different patterns on a label

Question

Hi,
I want to display different patterns on a label component , like label with mesh or lable with lines passing diagonally. Is there any way to draw these patterns on a label
Thanks

Answer 1

We dont want to draw
anything on label. we just need to display different
desings on labels
...and the way to display different designs on the label is to draw on it. However, you should not override the paint method, you should override the paintComponent method (assuming that you are using Swing rather than AWT, which seems to be a fair assumption since you are posting this in the Swing forum).
Here is a very simple example of one way of doing this. See how the paintComponent method is overridden to draw horizontal lines on the label. Maybe this can give you some ideas.
import java.awt.Graphics;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;
public class HorizontalLinesLabel extends JLabel {
    private static int GRID_SPACE = 7;
    public HorizontalLinesLabel(String s) {
        super(s);
    protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
        super.paintComponent(g);
        int h = getHeight();
        int w = getWidth();
        for( int y = GRID_SPACE; y < h; y += GRID_SPACE ) {
            g.drawLine(0, y, w, y);
}