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
32 public final class JvSwingUtils
35 * wrap a bare html safe string to around 60 characters per line using a <table width=350><tr><td></td> field
39 public static String wrapTooltip(String ttext)
41 if (ttext.length()<60)
45 return "<table width=350 border=0><tr><td>"+ttext+"</td></tr></table>";
48 public static JButton makeButton(String label, String tooltip,
49 ActionListener action)
51 JButton button = new JButton();
52 button.setText(label);
53 // TODO: get the base font metrics for the Jalview gui from somewhere
54 button.setFont(new java.awt.Font("Verdana", Font.PLAIN, 10));
55 button.setForeground(Color.black);
56 button.setHorizontalAlignment(SwingConstants.CENTER);
57 button.setToolTipText(tooltip);
58 button.addActionListener(action);