Center text in a JLabel?

From: willy (willyb_at_waonka.net)
Date: 12/30/03 

Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 23:19:40 GMT

Hi,

I'm not sure what I'm missing here, but I can't get my text to center in a
JLabel:
Note my 2 different attempts...

    JLabel statusPane = new JLabel( );
   // this doesn't work?
   //statusPane.setAlignmentX( JLabel.CENTER_ALIGNMENT );

    // this doesn't work?
   statusPane.setHorizontalTextPosition( SwingConstants.CENTER );

   statusPane.setBackground( new Color( 0x00aa00 ) );
   statusPane.setOpaque( true );
   statusPane.setText( "STATUS" );

Thanks for any tips.

T-