JTextField and alignment

Hello,
I hope I am just missing something basic. I have a class, KarJTextField, which inherits from JTextField. It does some things like change the text red when the users changes it etc, and that has all been working fine for months. Today I decided that any KarJTextField should be right-aligned, so in the constructors I call setHorizontalAlignment(JTextField.RIGHT), thinking that any KarJTextField object will then be right aligned. But it doesn't work! If I create a KarJTextField and then call the method like this:
someField = new KarJTextField("1.34",5);
someField.setHorizontalAlignment(JTextField.RIGHT);
then the text is aligned properly. But I really don't want to type it in every time I create a field. That is part of the reason for creating KarJTextField, so I don't have to define my specific field each time.
Does anyone have any thoughts?
thanks!
Keri

public JTextFieldAlignRight(String text, int columns) {
super(text, columns);
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}This seems to be what you want. Tried it. Works. Perhaps you set the
horizontalAligment in the wrong constructor of your JTextField.

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