Align icon and JCheckbox in JPopupmenu

Question

I have a Problem with some icons and check-boxes in a JPopupMenu. The Check-boxes and Icons are not aligned

The Items are created like:

Answer 1

Have a look at this, in order to achieve what you wanted, I did this,

JCheckBoxMenuItem cbmi = new JCheckBoxMenuItem("Check Me", null, true);
cbmi.setMargin(new java.awt.Insets(5, 25, 5, 5));
cbmi.setIconTextGap(15);
cbmi.setHorizontalTextPosition(javax.swing.SwingConstants.LEFT);
helpMenu.add(cbmi);

And here is the OUTPUT of the said thingy :