Why do Swing JButtons truncate?

Question

Swing newbie here. I used the NetBeans built-in GUI build to make an applicaton with a menu and some JDialogs. On some (not all) of the JDialogs, the labels of the JButtons are truncated. For instance, if a JButton label should read Create , I'll see Creat... . Even when I resize the window the buttons don't resize and show the entire label.

What does SO recommend? Are there special settings in NB that I have to configure in order to force the application to show the whole label? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You may be violating the button's preferred size through incorrect use of the enclosing panel's layout. The GUI designer may obscure the problem. Several related caveats are discussed here .

Also consider creating an sscce that exhibits the problem you describe.

Addendum: As concrete examples, each ButtonPanel has a default FlowLayout , which allows each button to adopt its preferred size. By comparison, the buttons in this ButtonIconTest adopt the preferred size of the specified icons.

Answer 2

You (or Netbeans) is probably setting the preferred width of the JLabel .

If possible, use another Layout : http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/layout/visual.html .

If that is not practical, you can also manually specify your desired button width

label.setMinimumSize(size);
label.setPreferredSize(size);

as long as you will not change the font.