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Pedrom
Pedrom

Reputation: 388

How to make a button selected by default in JToolbar

I created a small tool set which is composed of around 10 buttons. These buttons are added to a JToolBar. Currently, it puts a square around the first button by default; however, I would like a different button to be the default. How can I accomplish this? Below is an example of how I am adding the buttons. I have tried select.setSelected and a few other methods but haven't had any luck.

  JToolBar sideBar = new JToolBar();

  JButton select = new JButton(new ImageIcon("Media/select.png"));
  select.setBorderPainted(false);
  select.setContentAreaFilled(false);

  sideBar.add(select);

Here's an image of the current result:

current result - notice square on top left button

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1524

Answers (2)

CodeGuy
CodeGuy

Reputation: 28907

If you know which button you want to be active, you can use

button.requestFocusInWindow();

You can also try to set the default button at the root pane, depending on the set up of your Swing elements.

rootPane.setDefaultButton(button);

And finally, there is a handy method called setFocusedPainted(false);

Upvotes: 2

Thorn
Thorn

Reputation: 4057

You may want to set one button as the default button for the toolbar this way:

yourToolBar.getRootPane().setDefaultButton(okButton);

I often use the setDefaultButton method within Dialog boxes so the user can select the default button by pressing [Enter].

Upvotes: 2

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