Here you go: http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/5542/jxgradientlabelnk7.jpg
It's really like a label, but you can rotate the text (but just in 0, 90, 180 or 270 degrees) and put a gradient at the background (setting the colorFrom, colorTo and the direction of the gradient: top-to-bottom, bottom-to-top, right-to-left and left-to-right)... I didn't codded yet, but I'm going to put a option to render the background color, the gradient, or a tiled picture... What do you think? I know that it's just about details of the UI, but... Regards, Mario Cesar [Message sent by forum member 'mario_cesar' (mario_cesar)] http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=193316 =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA2D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".