Creating a custom button in Java with JButton

Question

I am trying to create a button that has a custom shape (hexagon), but otherwise acts like a normal JButton would (that is, works with an ActionListener).

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Answer 1

I know this question has been answered, but you might want to look at using the built-in methods, and using images to draw your button in different states.

Here is a bit of code I used to generate a custom button.

BufferedImage startButton = ImageIO.read(getClass().getResource("/icons/standard/buttons/start_backup.png"));
BufferedImage startButtonHover = ImageIO.read(getClass().getResource("/icons/standard/buttons/start_backup_hover.png"));
BufferedImage startButtonActive = ImageIO.read(getClass().getResource("/icons/standard/buttons/start_backup_active.png"));

JButton startBackupButton = new JButton(new ImageIcon(startButton));
startBackupButton.setRolloverIcon(new ImageIcon(startButtonHover));
startBackupButton.setPressedIcon(new ImageIcon(startButtonActive));
startBackupButton.setBorder(BorderFactory.createEmptyBorder());
startBackupButton.setContentAreaFilled(false);
startBackupButton.setFocusable(false);

You can then add an action listener to it as normal.