How to make a JButton width smaller?

Question

I can't seem to figure out how to resize the width of a JButton currently in vertical state. Right now it looks like this, and I'm trying to adjust the width of the button so it fits the logo.

        JButton jbt2 = createButton("1", "discord.png", "Open the official Skyfire homepage.");
        JButton jbt3 = createButton("1", "discord.png", "Open the official Skyfire homepage.");
        JButton jbt4 = createButton("1", "discord.png", "Open the official Skyfire homepage.");
    JButton jbt1 = createButton("1", "discord.png", "Open the official Skyfire homepage.");
  Box menuPanel = Box.createVerticalBox();
        menuPanel.add(jbt1);
        menuPanel.add(jbt2);
        menuPanel.add(jbt3);
        menuPanel.add(jbt4);

        add(menuPanel);  
        frame.getContentPane().add(menuPanel, BorderLayout.EAST);
    }

    private JButton createButton(String name, String image, String tooltip) {
        JButton button = new JButton(name);
        if (image != null)
            button.setIcon(new ImageIcon(ResourceLoader.loadImage(image)));
        button.addActionListener(this);
        if (tooltip != null)
            button.setToolTipText(tooltip);
    

        button.setBorder(BorderFactory.createEmptyBorder());
        button.setContentAreaFilled(false);
        button.setCursor(new Cursor(Cursor.HAND_CURSOR));
        button.setForeground(Color.decode("#4d2600"));
        return button;
    }

1) For better help sooner, [edit] to add a [MCVE] or [Short, Self Contained, Correct Example](http://www.sscce.org/). 2) Provide ASCII art or a simple drawing of the *intended* layout of the GUI at minimum size, and if resizable, with more width and height - to show how the extra space should be used. 3) See [Should I avoid the use of set(Preferred|Maximum|Minimum)Size methods in Java Swing?](http://stackoverflow.com/q/7229226/418556) (Yes.) — Andrew Thompson, Sep 28 '20 at 23:37
See also [this answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/10862262/418556) in which 4 buttons and 5 labels are made from a single image (each using different parts of it) with no space between them. — Andrew Thompson, Sep 28 '20 at 23:41
*"I'm trying to adjust the width of the button so it fits the logo"* But what about the text of the button? The example I linked has no button text (the part of the image used for that button shows all the user needs to know). — Andrew Thompson, Sep 28 '20 at 23:47

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Sep 28 '20 at 22:30

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so i think i found it, i just had to add

button.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(29, 40));

edited Sep 28 '20 at 22:30

camickr

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answered Sep 28 '20 at 21:06

Agent Draxed

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You don't need to do anything. Swing will automatically calculate the preferred size of the button. – camickr Sep 28 '20 at 22:31

How to make a JButton width smaller?

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