You may notice that the first or last character in a Label’s text can get partially chopped off by some implementations of the Java Virtual Machine. Older versions of browsers seem particularly poor in this respect. Oddly, the left side of a right justified Label is often the victim. I suspect the weakness is in the accuracy of the FontMetrics which are supposed to provide the width of each character, but this doesn’t help when you just want to get a good looking applet or application developed. In the following class, each Label’s text is padded with spaces to avoid truncation.
import java.awt.*;public class PaddedLabel extends Label {// Constructor, left justification public PaddedLabel(String text) { this(text, LEFT); }// Constructor, specified justification public PaddedLabel(String text, int justification) { super(" " + text.trim() + " ", justification); }// Accessor, returns text without padding public String getText() { return super.getText().trim(); }// Accessor, sets text with padding public void setText(String text) { super.setText(" " + text.trim() + " "); }}
