Put JLabel on Component in JPanel

Question

I have JPanel which contain a component imageWindow(object of this) now i want to put a label tag in the center of this imagewindow but i am not able to do so?

    JPanel imagePanel = new JPanel();
    imagePanel.setLayout(new GridBagLayout());
    imagePanel.add(ic);  //ic is imageWindow obj
    JLabel l1=new JLabel("First Label.");  

    JPanel example =new JPanel();
    example.add(l1);
    imagePanel.add(example);

what i am doing wrong here is screenshow i need to put the label here.

i want to put the label at the center but it always coming in the right side what i am doing wrong?

Answer 1

You could display the image in a JPanel that draws it in its paintComponent method, give that same JPanel a GridBagLayout, and add the JLabel to it. Or similarly you could display the image as an ImageIcon in a JLabel, give that JLabel a GridBagLayout, and add a text containing JLabel to it.

For instance in the code below, I display an image in the paintComponent method of a JPanel, give that panel a GridBagLayout, and then add a JLabel to that same JPanel without gridbag constraints, and this will center the JLabel on the JPanel:

import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.Font;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.GridBagLayout;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URL;

import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import javax.swing.*;

public class ImageFun extends JPanel {
    private static final String IMG_PATH = "https://aws.labome.com/figure/te-207-12.png";
    private static final String LABEL_TEXT = "Text is Centered";  // JLabel text
    private static final Font LABEL_FONT = new Font(Font.SANS_SERIF, Font.BOLD, 48);
    private static final Color LABEL_FG = Color.YELLOW;
    private BufferedImage img = null;  // our image

    public ImageFun(BufferedImage img) {
        this.img = img;
        setLayout(new GridBagLayout());

        // create JLabel 
        JLabel label = new JLabel(LABEL_TEXT);
        label.setFont(LABEL_FONT);
        label.setForeground(LABEL_FG);
        add(label);  // add without constraints
    }

    @Override
    protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
        super.paintComponent(g);
        if (img != null) {
            // only draw if the image is not null
            g.drawImage(img, 0, 0, null);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public Dimension getPreferredSize() {
        if (isPreferredSizeSet() || img == null) {
            return super.getPreferredSize();
        }

        // size the JPanel to match that of the image
        int prefW = img.getWidth();
        int prefH = img.getHeight();
        return new Dimension(prefW, prefH);
    }

    private static void createAndShowGui() {

        BufferedImage bImg = null;
        try {
            // get an image
            URL imgUrl = new URL(IMG_PATH);
            bImg = ImageIO.read(imgUrl);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        // shove the image into our JPanel
        ImageFun imageFun = new ImageFun(bImg);

        JFrame frame = new JFrame("Image Fun");
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        frame.getContentPane().add(imageFun);
        frame.pack();
        frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
        frame.setVisible(true);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(() -> createAndShowGui());
    }
}