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copied!<p>For a JLabel with icon, if you <code>setHorizontalTextPosition(SwingConstants.LEADING)</code>, the icon is painted right after text, no matter how wide the label is.</p> <p>This is particularly bad for a list, as the icons would be all over the place depending on how long the text is for each item.</p> <p>I traced the code and it seems to be that in <code>SwingUtilities#layoutCompoundLabelImpl</code>, text width is simply set to <code>SwingUtilities2.stringWidth(c, fm, text)</code>, and icon x is set to follow text without considering label width.</p> <p>Here is the simplest case:</p> <pre><code>import java.awt.*; import javax.swing.*; public class TestJLabelIcon { public static void main(String args[]) { EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() { public void run() { JLabel c = new JLabel("abc"); c.setHorizontalTextPosition(SwingConstants.LEADING); c.setHorizontalAlignment(SwingConstants.LEADING); c.setIcon(UIManager.getIcon("FileChooser.detailsViewIcon")); c.setBorder(BorderFactory.createLineBorder(Color.RED)); JFrame frame = new JFrame(); frame.setDefaultCloseOperation( JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE ); frame.getContentPane().add(c); frame.pack(); frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null); frame.setVisible(true); } }); } } </code></pre> <p>You can see that label always fills the frame but icon stays put. You'll get the mirror problem if you set both arguments to <code>TRAILING</code>.</p> <p>I know I can override the UI, or use a JPanel, etc. I just wonder if I'm missing something simple in JLabel. If not, it seems like a Java bug.</p> <p>FYI this is jdk1.6.0_06 on Windows XP.</p>

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