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1. How to Set the Background Color of a JButton on the Mac OS    stackoverflow.com

Normally with Java Swing you can set the background color of a button with:

myJButton.setBackground(Color.RED);
which would cause the button to be red. But on the Mac OS, this method seems to be ...

2. How to get JButton default background color?    stackoverflow.com

I use this : myButton.setBackground(myColor) to change the button background color to my color, how to find it's original default background color so I can change it back ? I know ...

3. How to set a backgroud color of a JButton in Java?    stackoverflow.com

I am developing a Java Desktop Application. In it I have 4 JButtons on a JPanel. Now I want that whenever a button is clicked its background color changes to some ...

4. Changing JButton background colour temporarily?    stackoverflow.com

I'm super new to Java, and in need of some help. I'm making a little java desktop application where I basically have a grid of 4 JButtons ( 2 x 2 ...

5. Setting Background of a Jbutton    stackoverflow.com

I have 5 JButtons: b1, b2, b3, b4, b5. By default, their color is gray. When I click on any button, the background of that button changes to white. When I click another button, ...

6. Swing JButton don't change background color onclick    stackoverflow.com

I want the button on click it never change the background color, by default the color will change to light blue grey color. So this is my code

JButton b = ...

7. is it better/faster to paint an image as the background of a button or use the Java2D to paint it    stackoverflow.com

Say I have a button and want to change the background button to a gradient, is it better/faster to draw a gradient using Java2D or just get an image with that ...

8. How to set background color of a button in Java GUI?    stackoverflow.com

Below is the code which creates 9 buttons in gridlayout form on a specific pannel3. What i want is to make the background of each button black with grey text over ...

9. check of a java awt 2D game, jbutton background update problem    stackoverflow.com

i'm posting a simple game code, written in java. It took my hours today to write this but now i'm stuck! The problem is, in the second level of this game ...





10. transparent JButtons in JFrame with a Background Image    stackoverflow.com

I am making a Class that extends JFrame and have my custom background image on it.. I have two problems.. 1) I want my background image to stay fixed sized that covers whole ...

11. Changing the background color of a selected JToggleButton    stackoverflow.com

I am trying to change the color of a JToggleButton when it has been selected in a reliable, look and feel independent way. Apparently, if using the Metal L&F, using the UIManager ...

12. JButton background on Nimbus LAF    stackoverflow.com

I use Nimbus LAF and I want to change the background of a simple JButton.

JButton jbutton = new JButton("test");
jbutton.setBackground(Color.BLACK);
But it doesn't work, when I change the look and feel it works ...

13. Transparent JButton still painting its background    stackoverflow.com

I have a translucent JPanel. I have created a custom JButton by extending JButton as I required a button with rounded corners and wanted to add some effects to it. I ...

14. Best way of Changing the background of JButtons    stackoverflow.com

Right now i change the background color of a button by using

button.setBackground(Color.WHITE);
That being an example. But when i have a massive grid out of jbuttons (1000+), just running a for loop ...

15. How to set the button color of a JButton (not background color)    stackoverflow.com

I have a JButton that I would like to change the background color of to white. When using the Metal Look And Feel, I achieve the desired effect with setBackground:

16. How to add JButton to Canvas() ? Or How to add JButton to Panel() and make the Panel() background as transparent?    stackoverflow.com

How can i add a JButton to my Canvas?

public class mywindow extends Window 
{
   private static final Canvas canvas = new Canvas();
   private JButton button;

  ...





17. How to make the AWT component transparent on progressive background image? Used Window(), Panel(), Button() but failed    stackoverflow.com

How can i make AWT component transparent when the background is progressive image? Note: AWT used only, where progressive Window() 5 frames/per second. Panel() is not getting transparent now while using ...

18. How can I make this JButton visible? When I have progressive scan background JWindow()?    stackoverflow.com

How can I make the JButton visible? 1) When no progressive background is turned on: JButton is showing enter image description here 2) When no progressive background is turned on, JButton is ...

19. Change JButton gradient color, but only for one button, not all    stackoverflow.com

I want to change JButton gradient color, i found this, http://java2everyone.blogspot.com/2009/01/set-jbutton-gradient-color.html, but i want to change gradient for only one button, not all button

20. Java: I can't change the background of JButton    stackoverflow.com

Greeting everyone. I've working a java program. I want to change the background of a JButton,However I can't change it. When the function is over, the color doesn't change a little.Here ...

21. Setting the background image of a JToggleButton    stackoverflow.com

I am trying to use synth look and feel xml to set the background image of a JToggleButton which seems to work but the text in the button isn't displaying. Is ...

22. JButton shows light blue background on Windows    stackoverflow.com

I have the following code to make a custom looking JButton

ImageIcon icon = createImageIcon(
                  ...

23. Swing : Setting JButton's background    stackoverflow.com

I want to set the background color of JButton. For that I use setBackground() method. This method jsut sets the border color of the button and not the whole ...

24. Jbutton background color    forums.netbeans.org

Hi, I am creating an application in Netbeans (desktop application) in that ,I have one form ,in that i have a buttons .I changed button properties (background color) when I run ...

25. Supporting background images in buttons    coderanch.com

Hi Nathan Thanks a lot for trying to give me a solution, altho' its a bit unfortunate that I could'nt find it in swing. But, I do appreciate your participation. If anybody else has any solutions for my problem, please fill me in immediately. Its a major requirement. Thanks again !! Meghna

26. Supporting background images in JButton .. I need help here    coderanch.com

Hi I've designed a ToolBar bean which has a series of buttons. I need the buttons to support background images apart from the text & icon that come as part of the button constructor. How do I approach this problem ?!! Is it possible to support background images using JButton ?!! Or is there any other component I should be looking ...

27. Strange JButton background behaviour    coderanch.com

28. is it possible to design your own background 4 jbuttons    coderanch.com

I got this to work... Here's the class.... import java.awt.*; import javax.swing.*; public class JImageButton extends JButton { Image backgroundImage; public JImageButton() { super(); } public JImageButton( Action a ) { super( a ); } public JImageButton( Icon icon ) { super( icon ); } public JImageButton( String text ) { super( text ); } public JImageButton( String text, Icon icon ...

29. JToggleButton background color    coderanch.com

30. how to flash JButton background    coderanch.com

ok... I'm building a game where the player selects three cards (JButtons) that make a "set" -- if they are incorrect, I want to flash the background of the button to RED, then back to the normal (light gray) color and game play can continue. Problem is -- I make calls to setBackground() but the button is not repainted... I've tried ...

31. How do gradient as background of button?    coderanch.com

Here's one way: import java.awt.*; import javax.swing.*; public class CustomButtons { public static void main(String[] args) { JPanel buttonPanel = new JPanel(new GridBagLayout()); buttonPanel.setBackground(Color.white); GridBagConstraints gbc = new GridBagConstraints(); gbc.weightx = 1.0; buttonPanel.add(new CustomButton("Button 1", Color.red, Color.blue), gbc); buttonPanel.add(new CustomButton("Button 2", Color.yellow, Color.blue), gbc); JFrame f = new JFrame(); f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); f.getContentPane().add(buttonPanel); f.setSize(300,175); f.setLocation(300,300); f.setVisible(true); } } class CustomButton extends JButton { ...

32. radiobuttons changing background color    coderanch.com

I have 4 radio buttons in a group box. When the user selects any one, the background color should change to whatever color is associated with the radio button. I have it coded but here is my problem. When the radio button is checked the color checked flashes and then goes away. The same thing happens when any of the 4 ...

33. JButton background color    coderanch.com

34. JButton Custom Background    coderanch.com

I am designing a GUI that will be run on a LCD display with poor performance at large viewing angles... for this reason it has been requested that the backgrounds of my buttons , which when active are usually light gray (75,75,75), be a stiple pattern (pixel checkerboard) of white (255,255,255) and a darker gray (150,150,150) that will appear light gray ...

35. How draw background (behind image) in only one part, and draw buttons/components?    coderanch.com

OK, I know how to draw the background behind a JWindow using Robot (I found the code - see below), but I'm not sure how to draw my JWindow as normal (with buttons, panels, etc) EXCEPT for the corners which I want rounded and transparent. Can anyone help me here? I'm not totally certain how to go about this. Thanks! OK, ...

36. button in jpanel should change background of jframe?    coderanch.com

Hello I have created 2 classes First class is a jpanel and it has a button Second class is a jframe and displays an object of jpanel. I wrote this program so that i can understand object oriented programming. My question is How can i change the jframe background colour by clicking the button that is in the jpanel class? Could ...

37. jbutton background image    coderanch.com

39. JButton's Icon's Background is Black?    coderanch.com

package jchess; import java.awt.*; import java.awt.Image; import java.awt.image.BufferedImage; import java.awt.image.MemoryImageSource; import javax.swing.*; public class Replay extends JPanel { JButton play; public Replay() { setLayout(null); ImageIcon icon=new ImageIcon(createBuffImage()); play=new JButton(icon); play.setSize(97,20); play.setLocation(10,10); add(play); setSize(200,200); setVisible(true); } public BufferedImage createBuffImage() { int w=15; BufferedImage buffImage=new BufferedImage (w,w, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB); Graphics2D g2=buffImage.createGraphics(); //g2.setPaint(UIManager.getColor("Panel.background")); not sure what this does g2.setColor(Color.red); g2.fillPolygon(new int[]{0,w-1,0},new int[]{0,(w-1)/2,w-1},3); g2.dispose(); return buffImage; ...

40. JButton onClick change background color    coderanch.com

Hey guys, Similar to my prior post... I have the following code private void gboard_row1_btn1ActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) { Color colors[] = new Color[6]; colors[0] = Color.red; colors[1] = Color.orange; colors[2] = Color.yellow; colors[3] = Color.green; colors[4] = Color.blue; colors[5] = new Color(138, 43, 226); while( i<6 ) { gboard_row1_btn1.setBackground(colors[i]); i++; }else{ i=0; } } What I need to do is, each time ...

41. Listeners and buttons vs enabling application from background    coderanch.com

If a Java application is in the background, then clicked, this can be detected in a windowActivated() event by testing if event.getOppositeWindow() is null. What I want is a simple way to make the first click on a background Java application not do anything but bring the application into focus (i.e. if a button is pressed, if a drawing canvas is ...

42. JButton with icon as background and button name as pop up    coderanch.com

Hi, I want to create a few buttons vertically on right side of a window, these buttons take images/icons as background, but do not show button name, only when mouse is moved to the button, button name will be shown beside the mouse, like those icons on the tool bar. And when a checkbox is clicked, these button can be disabled. ...

43. how to change the background color of Buttons in a JPanel?    coderanch.com

hey guys I know how to change the background color for buttons. but if you 50 button in a panel and you want all of them to have same color. it's really hard to write code for 50 button or 200 button a panel to chage thier color. is there a way to change all with very simple code. Jbutton1.setbackground(Color.red) ........... ...

44. BackGround JRadioButton    java-forums.org

Hello, you know for how can I change the background of a JRadioButton when the user selects. The problem is: I created a Swing JDialog containing a JPanel with three JRabioButton and I set the icon for each button with a picture, but each time the button is selected I want the background was changed to improve l ' usability and ...

45. Adding JButton to JFrame with background    java-forums.org

Hey, I'm attempting to create a game, and add a buy menu to it, but I can't seem to figure out how to add a JButton. Here's my code, thanks to anybody who can help. Java Code: import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; import java.io.*; import javax.imageio.ImageIO; import javax.swing.ImageIcon; import javax.swing.JButton; import javax.swing.JLabel; import javax.swing.JPanel; public class NewOrLoad extends JPanel implements KeyListener, ActionListener ...

46. JButton : Background and Text    java-forums.org

47. JButton background not displaying (FRUSTRATING)    java-forums.org

Never never never use getGraphics() of a Component. That way lies grief. Never never never call paintComponent or any painting method from client code. The reason you're not seeing the background color is that the default Metal UI for a button uses a Map of colors to draw a gradient which is painted over the background. Here are three sane approaches ...

48. JButton onClick change color background    java-forums.org

private void gboard_row1_btn1ActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) { Object source = evt.getSource(); Color color = getBackground(); if (source == new Color(255, 255, 255)) color = Color.red; else if (source == Color.red) color = Color.orange; else if (source == Color.orange) color = Color.yellow; else if (source == Color.yellow) color = Color.green; else if (source == Color.green) color = Color.blue; else if (source == Color.blue) color ...

49. Paint frame background img and have JButton at same time    java-forums.org

Hello! This may seem like a simple issue yet it's got me pretty beat. What I'm wondering is why I'm unable to draw a background image to my frame while, at the same time, having a JButton. Please observe the code below which I've tested. As is, this program will open a 900X400 window with a JButton at the top-middle. If ...

50. Gui, buttons to change background colour red and blue    forums.oracle.com

I am very sorry but after trying your suggestions I am still not able to compile the program.( I am studying open university and unfortunately I have had to teach myself most of what I know in Java) so I am quite a novice. Would it be possible at all if your where to show me how the code should be ...