Adding a Label and Setting Its Properties

Your application uses a blank label with an opaque background to display the colors. You need to add the label and set its properties.

To add a label:

  1. Click the Swing tab on the Component Palette.
  2. In the Swing pane, click the JLabel button.
  3. Click anywhere in the Form Designer pane.

    A label with the text jLabel1 is displayed in the Form Designer pane. In the Component Inspector, a node named jLabel1 [JLabel] is displayed (and highlighted) in the tree view and the properties for the component are displayed in the Properties pane. Source code for the label is displayed in the Source Editor.

  4. In the Properties tab, scroll to the text property and delete jLabel1 (leaving the value blank) and press Enter.
  5. In the Other Properties tab, scroll to the opaque property and select its default value (False), choose True from the combo box.

All you should see in the Form Designer is a line that demarks the boundary of the jLabel1 component.

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