Java™ How To Program (Early Objects), Tenth Edition

Creating and Attaching label2

Lines 29–30 use another JLabel constructor to create a JLabel that displays the text "Label with text and icon" and the Icon bug created in line 28. The last constructor argument indicates that the label’s contents are left justified, or left aligned (i.e., the icon and text are at the left side of the label’s area on the screen). Interface SwingConstants (package javax.swing) declares a set of common integer constants (such as SwingConstants.LEFT, SwingConstants.CENTER and SwingConstants.RIGHT) that are used with many Swing components. By default, the text appears to the right of the image when a label contains both text and an image. The horizontal and vertical alignments of a JLabel can be set with methods ...