Question

I am working on a swing gui which have many buttons. I have many actions in which buttons disable and enable at times. I want to set tooltips for only enabled buttons. When the button disables I don’t want any tooltip for that button.

Answer 1

I would try extending the Button class, and overloading getTooltip(). Something like:

public class MyButton extends JButton {
  public String getTooltip() {
     if (this.isEnabled()) {
       return super.getTooltip();
     }
     return null;
  }
}

Of course, this depends on Swing using getTooltip to get the info to draw the button; anyway I would try it.