Seems like an easy question but?

Question

I'm simply trying to right-justify text in a non-editable JTextField but I don't have the text available when i create the object. So i make it the maximum needed length, but when i call setText on it, and then setAlignmentX with the value JTextField.RIGHT_ALIGNMENT it seems to have no affect on the data. Is there a workaround or am i just missing something?

Answer 1

Nopeimport java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class Test extends JFrame {
    JTextField jtf = new JTextField("Some Text",20);
    JCheckBox jcb = new JCheckBox("Right");
    public Test() {
     setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
     Container content = getContentPane();
     content.setLayout(new FlowLayout());
     content.add(jtf);
     content.add(jcb);
     jcb.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
         public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae) {
          jtf.setHorizontalAlignment(jcb.isSelected()?JTextField.RIGHT:JTextField.LEFT);
     setSize(400,400);
     show();
    public static void main(String[] args) { new Test(); }
}