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

A suggestion would be to set the Image as a label and add a mouse listener to the label to detect clicks.

Example:

ImageIcon icon = ...;

JLabel button = new JLabel(icon);

button.addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter() {
  @Override
  public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) {
     ... handle the click ...
  }
});