Whole label does not show

Question

I need to add some labels to my GUI. I have a special font I would like to use, and I've created a subclass to JLabel that overrides the paint() method so that the text will be antialiased.
public class SmoothLabel extends JLabel{
     public SmoothLabel(String str) {
          super(str);
     public void paint(Graphics g) {
          Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D) g;
          g2.setRenderingHint(
               RenderingHints.KEY_TEXT_ANTIALIASING,
               RenderingHints.VALUE_TEXT_ANTIALIAS_ON);
          g2.setRenderingHint(
               RenderingHints.KEY_FRACTIONALMETRICS,
               RenderingHints.VALUE_FRACTIONALMETRICS_ON);
          super.paint(g);
}Then when I add the labels to a panel with the BoxLayout as layout, the two last letters of the text is replaced by 3 dots. It does not matter how long the text is (unless its very short), the end is always replaced by 3 dots. Of course I can add some blanks to the end, but that does not look very nice. Here's the method that returns a panel with all the labels.
private JPanel createBookIndex() {
     JPanel p = new JPanel();
     p.setOpaque(false);
     BoxLayout boxLayout = new BoxLayout(p, BoxLayout.Y_AXIS);
     p.setLayout(boxLayout);
     Iterator itr = library.iterator();
     while(itr.hasNext()){
          Book book = (Book) itr.next();
          JLabel label = new SmoothLabel(book.getText());
          label.setBorder(BorderFactory.createEmptyBorder(15, 30, 0, 0));
          label.setFont(SMALL_FONT);
          label.setOpaque(false);
          p.add(label);
     return p;
}Anyone have an idea of how to solve this? If I change the labels to JLabel instead of SmoothLabel, the problem does not appear. And I don't think it appears if I dont have a layout either, but I'm not sure on that one...
I've tried to change the size of booth the panel and the labels, but without any success.

Answer 1

This is so strange... I don't even know how to describe it properly...
It does not work fully, but....
My program is basicly a kind of a library, where you should be able to add books. Each book contains chapters, and each chapter contains pages with entries.
At the start of the program, it will list all the books in the library. When I do that, the titles of the books gets their end replaced by dots.
Then when you click on a book, it will open and a list of chapters appears. It is the same method that display the list of books that displays the list of chapters of a book.
But when the chapters are displayed, the 3 dots at the end does NOT appear. See the method below...
     private JPanel createIndexPanel(LinkedList list) {
          JPanel p = new JPanel();
          p.setOpaque(false);
          BoxLayout boxLayout = new BoxLayout(p, BoxLayout.Y_AXIS);
          p.setLayout(boxLayout);
          Iterator itr = list.iterator();
          while (itr.hasNext()) {
               Object o = itr.next();
               JLabel label = null;
               if (o instanceof Book) {
                    label = new SmoothLabel(((Book) o).getName());
                    label.addMouseListener(new LabelListener((Book) o));
               } else if (o instanceof Chapter) {
                    label = new SmoothLabel(((Chapter) o).getName());
                    label.addMouseListener(new LabelListener((Chapter) o));
               } else if (o instanceof Page) {
                    label = new SmoothLabel(((Page) o).getEntry());
                    label.addMouseListener(new LabelListener((Page) o));
               label.setBorder(BorderFactory.createEmptyBorder(15, 30, 0, 0));
               label.setFont(SMALL_FONT);
               label.setOpaque(false);
               p.add(label);
          return p;
     }Any more ideas? I've never seen anything like this before...