can I rotate the button or label into vertically in java? - java

I want button in vertically, for that i can extend the height and shrink the width of that button. But the text of the lable of buttons are in the form of horizontal only. For that can i rotate the whole button vertically and is it possible?

Rotated Icon shows how the text and icon can be rotated on the button (or any component that uses icons.

The easiest way to do this would be to pre-rotate the labels and just have it as an image on the button.
You might also want to take a look at this solution given in sun's forum for rotating a JButton.

You should be able to do this with scene graph: https://scenegraph.dev.java.net/

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I am currently trying to get the tabs on the tab pane to be rotated 90 degrees and visible completely.
My attempt has ended in this
Image
I was able to rotate it by adding a rotate styling to the tab itself, but i cannot resize the anchorpane, or tab at all.
After googling for a long time, I could only find this http:// javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-19547. It says that the only way they could do it is to "put the text into the tab's 'Graphic' to achieve this". I'm not sure what that means or how to accomplish that.
My end goal is to create tabs that have the same shape and feel as these (image)
In this solution:
http://oreilly.com/pub/a/mac/2002/03/22/vertical_text.html
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Moving JButton text over its icon by pixels

I am creating a desktop application in Java with lots of customized UI.
It also has a breadcrumb.
I've extended JButton class to customize it for my Breadcrumb buttons.
This is the screenshot of expected breadcrumb.
http://puu.sh/4MtvZ.jpg
The background of this breadcrumb is an ImageIcon.
But now, I am not able to perfectly align the JButton text over this background icon.
This is the screenshot of actual breadcrumb.
http://puu.sh/4MtDc.png
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So, is their a way that I can move this text in pixels to its right position?
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So, is their a way that I can move this text in pixels to its right position?
I don't understand this question. Why are you setting the alignment to center if you want it aligned to the left.
Edit:
I see. You are just using an Icon for the button outline and are then painting the text on top of the Icon. I thought your were using a custom shaped button with text). You can just use the default vertical/horizontal text position settings.
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How do I set Z-order for image in Swing Java

I have 3 image so I want, if I drag any image that should appear above all the other images. Which technique can use? please any idea???? By the way I am using "ImageIcon".
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By the way I am using "ImageIcon".
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so I want, if I drag any image that should appear above all the other images
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