Rotate a Swing JLabel

Question

I am currently trying to implement a Swing component, inheriting from JLabel which should simply represent a label that can be oriented vertically.

Begi

Answer 1

I've had a play with this, it wasn't working very well initially because the label bounds were exactly square and caused components to the right of the label to shift and become obscured. But I then realised that it was because I am using JGoodies FormLayout. If you use this layout manager, make sure you set the column size to "preferred" not "default". HTH.