I don't have the exact answer for you, but I'm almost positive that if you pull up the javadoc on JComponent or something in those lines, that there is like an overflow or text obfuscated or some other flag that you can check. But, the thing I was going to mention is, please study up on layout managers, because you mentioned that your components might not be laid out properly, and layout managers make this so amazingly easy. Take care, Sina -----Original Message----- From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sérgio Neves Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2008 12:30 AM To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: java swing Hi, I'm programming with java swing package. What is the best way to know if a text fits into a label, button, etc... or not? My friend says that on eclipse's visual editor, it appears three periods (...) to know that the text doesn't fit into the component, but I think java access bridge gives the complete text, so I don't see the three periods. My friend told me: "I don't see any text on the radio buttons". And I said: "But I see it, you're playing with me!". But the text didn't appear because the buttons are very short.. Thus, the interface is useable to me but not to others, lol. But I'd like to make interfaces that, although the controls are not well positioned, they are visible to sighted people. Is it possible? Any help is greatly apreciated Best regards Sérgio Neves P.s: I've tried to move the components in the same way as sighted people do, but I think it's not accessible. But I don't know how to explain it in a bug for this.. I'm using visual editor 1.2 because the latest is in development. __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind