How to Set the Background Color of a JButton on the Mac OS

Question

Normally with Java Swing you can set the background color of a button with:

myJButton.setBackground(Color.RED);

which would cause the butto

Answer 1

If you are not required to use Apple's look and feel, a simple fix is to put the following code in your application or applet, before you add any GUI components to your JFrame or JApplet:

 try {
    UIManager.setLookAndFeel( UIManager.getCrossPlatformLookAndFeelClassName() );
 } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
 }

That will set the look and feel to the cross-platform look and feel, and the setBackground() method will then work to change a JButton's background color.