How to set the text in a jtextfield to align to the left

A quick simple question. I'm populating a jtextfield with text pulled from a record. However the text is too long to fit in the jtextfield and the alignment is set to the right rather than the left. How do I set the alignment of the text in the jtextfield to be on the left, so that the first character of the string is shown?
I've tried using
setHorizontalAlignmnet(JTextField.LEFT),
but my text still appears right justified in the jtextfield. It means that the user has to scroll the text to go to the beginning of the string, rather than the usual of scrolling the right to go the end of the string.
This has really gotten me stumped!

HI thanks for the help. Unfortunately it doesn't work if the text is longer than the actual textfield. The textfield would still show the end of the text, rather than showing the beginning of the text.
For e.g.
|est text|
is show rather than
|test tex|
which is my desired result.
Any further suggestions please.

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