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Electrons_Ahoy
Electrons_Ahoy

Reputation: 38573

Draw a JButton to look like a JLabel (or at least without the button edge?)

I've got a JButton that for various reasons I want to act like a button, but look like a JLabel. It doesn't actually have to be a JLabel under the hood, I just don't want the raised button edge to show up.

Is there an easy way to turn off the "button look" for JButtons but keep all the button functionality?

I could build some kind of composed subclass hyperbutton that delegated to a jlabel for display purposes, but I'm really hoping there's something along the lines of button.lookLikeAButton(false).

Upvotes: 20

Views: 12715

Answers (5)

Sagar G.
Sagar G.

Reputation: 534

 setContentAreaFilled(false);
 setBorderPainted(false);
 setOpaque(false);

This three lines do the trick.

Upvotes: 0

Avrom
Avrom

Reputation: 5027

You will want to do the following:

        setFocusPainted(false);
        setMargin(new Insets(0, 0, 0, 0));
        setContentAreaFilled(false);
        setBorderPainted(false);
        setOpaque(false);

You may want to exclude setFocusPainted(false) if you want it to actually paint the focus (e.g. dotted line border on Windows look and feel).

I have used the above code in cases where I have wanted an "icon only" button.

Upvotes: 34

camickr
camickr

Reputation: 324098

button.setBorderPainted( false );
button.setContentAreaFilled( false ); // ?

Upvotes: 1

Curtis
Curtis

Reputation: 4031

Might it actually be easier just to add a mouse listener to a JLabel? You could adjust the colors on mousePressed and mouseReleased, and do your action processing on mouseClicked?

Upvotes: -1

mdma
mdma

Reputation: 57707

Set the background color to transparent, and the border to an EmptyBorder instance.

E.g.

   JButton button = new JButton();
   button.setBackground(null);
   button.setOpaque(false);
   button.setBorder(new EmptyBorder());

The text will still move up and down as you click the button, and the button can still be "armed" by clicking, holding, and "disarmed" by moving the mouse out of the button area.

If you don't want this behaviour, then you probably don't want to use a button, and use a real label instead.

Upvotes: 2

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