TitleBorder with Icon - Is it possible?

Question

Hi,
I have a Title border for a panel. I need to include an icon before the title.. Is it possible? How?
regards,
tom

Answer 1

I have a Title border for a panel.I suppose you mean TitledBorder.
I need to include an icon before the title.. Is it possible?Yes.
How?Extend TitledBorder and override paintBorder. Refer to the source code of javax.swing.border.TitledBorder for guidance.
This anonymous inner class displays a pink circle alongside the title:        panel.setBorder
                ( new TitledBorder
                (new LineBorder (Color.BLACK),
                "     Test Border") {
            @Override
            public void paintBorder (Component c,
                        Graphics g,
                        int x,
                        int y,
                        int width,
                        int height) {
                super.paintBorder (c, g, x, y, width, height);
                Color oldColor = g.getColor ();
                g.setColor (Color.PINK);
                g.fillOval (EDGE_SPACING + LEADING + TEXT_INSET_H,
                        EDGE_SPACING + TEXT_SPACING,
                        10, 10);
                g.setColor (oldColor);
        });In this example, which will work ok only with the default title placement (TitledBorder.LEADING) in left-to-right locale I have provided space for the graphic by the simple expedient of including leading spaces in the title String. A more generalized solution would probably require recoding the entire method and omitting the call to super.paintBorder (...). Haven't tried it though.
db