Java: using an image as a button

Question

I would like to use an image as a button in Java, and I tried to do this:

BufferedImage buttonIcon = ImageIO.read(new File(\"buttonIconPath\"));
button = new         


        

Answer 1

Remove the border like so:

button.setBorder(BorderFactory.createEmptyBorder());

and then also the contents¹:

button.setContentAreaFilled(false);

_{¹: Taken from the solution added to the question by @3sdmx}