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

Question

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?

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

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