JLabel Right-Justified Icon and Text

icons, java, jlabel, swing

Solution

Perhaps this would be more what you're looking for? It should align everything on the right side of the panel (more so than the example you were looking at):

import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;

public class TempProject
{
    public static void main(String args[])
    {
        EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable()
        {
            public void run()
            {
                Box mainContent = Box.createVerticalBox();
                mainContent.add(TempProject.getLabel("abc"));
                mainContent.add(TempProject.getLabel("Longer"));
                mainContent.add(TempProject.getLabel("Longerest"));
                mainContent.add(TempProject.getLabel("Smaller"));

                JFrame frame = new JFrame();
                frame.setDefaultCloseOperation( JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE );
                frame.setContentPane(mainContent);    
                frame.pack();
                frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
                frame.setVisible(true);
            }
        });
    }

    public static JLabel getLabel(String text){
        JLabel c = new JLabel(text);
        c.setHorizontalTextPosition(SwingConstants.LEADING);
        c.setAlignmentX(SwingConstants.RIGHT);
        c.setIcon(UIManager.getIcon("FileChooser.detailsViewIcon"));
        return c;
    }
}

Problem

Is it possible to create a `JLabel` with a right-justified icon and text and the icon is on the right, like this: I've seen this question, but is it really the best approach?

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