java exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException

Question

I was trying my first code in java swing and got many errors. my code is:

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;

class Swinging extends JFrame
{
    JTextField ans;
    int count =0;
    static final long serialVersionUID = 1L; 
    Swinging()
    {
         Container cp= getContentPane();
         cp.setLayout(new FlowLayout());

         cp.add(new JLabel("value",7));

         ans=new JTextField("0",10);
         cp.add(ans);

         JButton inc= new JButton("increment");
         cp.add(inc);

         inc.addActionListener(new ActionListener(){
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
            {
                ++count;
                ans.setText(count+"");
            }
         });

        setSize(200,200);
        setVisible(true);
        setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
     }
 }


public class Usingswing {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {

             public void run() {
                new Swinging(); // Let the constructor do the job
             }
          });

    }

}

and the errors are as follows:

Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: horizontalAlignment
at javax.swing.JLabel.checkHorizontalKey(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.JLabel.setHorizontalAlignment(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.JLabel.<init>(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.JLabel.<init>(Unknown Source)
at hopeso.Swinging.<init>(Usingswing.java:16)
at hopeso.Usingswing$1.run(Usingswing.java:45)
at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue.access$400(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)

i tried solving my problem using the questions posted by other people but it didn't workout. please help.

Answer 1

The error occurs because of the following line:

cp.add(new JLabel("value",7));

You're using JLabel's constructor that receives the text and the horizontal alignment. The alignment is an int, but it has to be one of the following constants, otherwise it will throw the IllegalArgumentException:

• LEFT (2)
• CENTER (0)
• RIGHT (4)
• LEADING (10)
• TRAILING (11)

These constants are defined in SwingConstants, so you can just write something like this:

cp.add(new JLabel("value", SwingConstants.CENTER));