Rotate a Swing JLabel

Question

I am currently trying to implement a Swing component, inheriting from JLabel which should simply represent a label that can be oriented vertically.

Begi

Answer 1

I think it is off because you are translating about the wrong point.

the size of the object depends on what container you have this in, so while your preferred size might be what you want, your actual size isn't?

if you have this label in the CENTER of a BorderLayout, the size is always the full size of the container (minus north+south height, minus east+west width)

so don't you have to translate about the actual size, not preferred size?