2 * Jalview - A Sequence Alignment Editor and Viewer (Version 2.6)
3 * Copyright (C) 2010 J Procter, AM Waterhouse, G Barton, M Clamp, S Searle
5 * This file is part of Jalview.
7 * Jalview is free software: you can redistribute it and/or
8 * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
9 * as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
11 * Jalview is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
12 * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty
13 * of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
14 * PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
16 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Jalview. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
20 import java.awt.Color;
22 import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
24 import javax.swing.JButton;
25 import javax.swing.SwingConstants;
28 * useful functions for building Swing GUIs
33 public final class JvSwingUtils
36 * wrap a bare html safe string to around 60 characters per line using a
44 public static String wrapTooltip(String ttext)
46 if (ttext.length() < 60)
52 return "<table width=350 border=0><tr><td>" + ttext
53 + "</td></tr></table>";
57 public static JButton makeButton(String label, String tooltip,
58 ActionListener action)
60 JButton button = new JButton();
61 button.setText(label);
62 // TODO: get the base font metrics for the Jalview gui from somewhere
63 button.setFont(new java.awt.Font("Verdana", Font.PLAIN, 10));
64 button.setForeground(Color.black);
65 button.setHorizontalAlignment(SwingConstants.CENTER);
66 button.setToolTipText(tooltip);
67 button.addActionListener(action);