JSlider - Showing the labels only at the major tick points

Question

Hi
I am using a vertical JSlider and I have the options to change the maximum and minimum values of the slider.
The problem is that when the difference between minimum and maximum values are very high, a number of labels are displayed. As this difference increases, these labels will be overlapped and the labels become unreadable.
I need to restrict the number of labels only to the major tick marks of the JSlider. Can anybody suggest a solution to show the tick labels only at the major tick points ??
Thanks in advance.
Regards
Anoop

Answer 1

You can show slider labels at whatever values you choose by using setLabelTable. Example:slider = new JSlider(); // default range, 0 - 100
Hashtable<Integer, Component> labelTable = new Hashtable<Integer, Component>();
labelTable.put(0, new JLabel("Zero"));
labelTable.put(25, new JLabel("25"));
labelTable.put(50, new JLabel("50"));
labelTable.put(100, new JLabel("100!"));
slider.setLabelTable(labelTable);
slider.setPaintLabels(true);db