Question

I have a panel in which i have specified with a grid bag layout. I basically have 1 column and 4 rows. The labels are aligned to the center by default. How do i align them to the left?

  private void addLabel(String name, int gridx, int gridy, int anchor ){
            gbc.gridx=gridx;
            gbc.gridy=gridy;
            JLabel label=new JLabel(name);
            gbc.fill=GridBagConstraints.HORIZONTAL;
            gbag.setConstraints(label, gbc);
            panel1.add(label);

The caller lines are:

gbc=new GridBagConstraints();
        gbag=new GridBagLayout();
panlel1.setLayout(gbag);
addLabel("    Exemption type", 0, 0,anchor );

Answer 1

try

JLabel myLabel = new JLabel("Fubar", SwingConstants.LEFT);

Or you could do the same on an already created JLabel by calling myLabel.setHorizontalAlignment(SwingConstants.LEFT);

edit: for example:

import java.awt.GridBagConstraints;
import java.awt.GridBagLayout;

import javax.swing.*;

public class GridBagExample {
   private static void createAndShowUI() {
      String[] data = {"one", "two", "three", "four"};

      JPanel panel = new JPanel(new GridBagLayout());
      GridBagConstraints gbc = new GridBagConstraints();
      gbc.gridx = 0;
      gbc.gridy = 0;
      gbc.gridwidth = 1;
      gbc.gridheight = 1;
      gbc.anchor = GridBagConstraints.WEST;
      gbc.fill = GridBagConstraints.BOTH;
      gbc.weightx = 1.0;  // **** comment this line out to see effect ****
      gbc.weighty = 1.0;  // **** comment this line out to see effect ****

      for (int i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
         JLabel label = new JLabel(data[i]);
         gbc.gridy = i;
         panel.add(label, gbc);
      }

      JFrame frame = new JFrame("GridBagExample");
      frame.getContentPane().add(panel);
      frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
      frame.pack();
      frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
      frame.setVisible(true);
   }

   public static void main(String[] args) {
      java.awt.EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
         public void run() {
            createAndShowUI();
         }
      });
   }
}