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Fallso
Fallso

Reputation: 1301

Dynamically change jButton icon

I have a program that detects when certain machines are online and creates a button with a green "online" icon to show this. I want to add the functionality to check periodically if this machine is still online, and if it's not, change the icon to the "offline" icon that I've already defined.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 12615

Answers (5)

mKorbel
mKorbel

Reputation: 109813

I know how to set the icon, however I can't figure out a way to do it once the button has already been displayed

probably you have issues with Concurency in Swing, that means that all Swing code must be done on EDT

then you have to wrap myButton.setIcon(myIcon) to the invokeLater(), for example

SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {

    @Override
    public void run() {
        myButton.setIcon(myIcon);
    }
});

Upvotes: 12

serup
serup

Reputation: 3822

you can add an action listener on the button, then in its called function change the icon - here is an example :

public yourDialogSwing() {

        Yourbutton.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                onButtonPressed();
            }
        });
}

private void onButtonPressed() {
       YourButton.setIcon(YourButton.getPressedIcon());
}

Upvotes: 0

Samuel Moshie
Samuel Moshie

Reputation: 570

btn1.setIcon(new javax.swing.ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("/url.png")));

Upvotes: 0

Andrew Thompson
Andrew Thompson

Reputation: 168825

I have a program that detects when certain machines are online and creates a button with a green "online" icon to show this.

Use a JToggleButton instead, as shown here1 & here2.

I can't figure out a way to do it once the button has already been displayed.

To toggle the state and fire an action event doClick() or alternately setSelected(boolean).

Screenshots

Upvotes: 5

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S.L. Barth is on codidact.com

Reputation: 8245

You should be able to do so using AbstractButton.setIcon(). It may require you to call invalidate() on the button to get the change displayed.

changeButton = new JButton(icon1);
changeButton.addActionListener(
    new ActionListener( )
    {
        private boolean flag = true;

        @Override
        public void actionPerformed( ActionEvent arg0 )
        {
            changeButton.setIcon( flag ? icon2 : icon1 );
            flag = !flag;
        }
    }
);
add(changeButton);

Upvotes: 1

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