Changing the background color of a selected JToggleButton

Question

I am trying to change the color of a JToggleButton when it has been selected in a reliable, look and feel independent way.

If using the Metal L&F, t

Answer 1

When it using "Windows look and feel"; in Netbeans you have to do only two things.

1. Go to properties
2. Un-select 'contentAreaFilled'
3. Select 'opaque'
4. You can set a background color in properties or by hard coding

In other way,

    jToggleButton.setContentAreaFilled(false);
    jToggleButton.setOpaque(true);
    jToggleButton.setBackground(Color.red); //Your color here

That's all.:-)

Answer 2

You might see if setIcon() is sufficient for your purpose, but you can also override paint() in the ButtonUI delegate.

Addendum: @kleopatra's comment is well-taken: changing the UI delegate is not trivial. @mKorbel's recent example shows both the difficulty and versatility of the approach. Its essential advantage is look & feel independence.

Some less ambitious approaches are mentioned here.

Answer 3

If you would rather use an action listener instead of overriding methods in a UI you can just change the UI to a UI without any selectColor properties.

Here is an example I used recently

private class FavouriteToggle extends JToggleButton {
    public FavouriteToggle() {
        setUI(new BasicToggleButtonUI()); //Removes selectColor

        ////Your Custom L&F Settings////
        setBackground(new Color(255, 252, 92));
        setForeground(Color.GRAY);
        setText("Favourite");
        setBorder(null);
        setFocusPainted(false);

        ////Add your own select color by setting background////
        addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
            @Override
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                if(((JToggleButton) e.getSource()).isSelected()) {
                    setForeground(Color.BLACK);
                    setBackground(new Color(255, 251, 0));
                } else {
                    setBackground(new Color(255, 252, 92));
                    setForeground(Color.GRAY);
                }
            }
        });
    }
}

Answer 4

JToggleButton btn = new JToggleButton(...);
btn.setUI(new MetalToggleButtonUI() {
    @Override
    protected Color getSelectColor() {
        return Color.RED;
    }
});

Answer 5

You can simply force background color before each repaint - for that you have to alter paintComponent, check if button is toggled, set background depending on toggle state and, at last, let super class do the actual paint job:

public class ColoredToggleButton extends JToggleButton
{
    @Override
    public void paintComponent(Graphics g)
    {
        Color bg;
        if (isSelected()){
            bg = Color.GREEN;
        } else {
            bg = Color.RED;
        }
        setBackground(bg);
        super.paintComponent(g);
    }
}

Answer 6

"ToggleButton.selected" is wrong, it require "ToggleButton.select". And should be update to the component.

UIManager.put("ToggleButton.select", Color.WHITE);
SwingUtilities.updateComponentTreeUI(togglebuttonname);