Question

I have a Java application which uses the native LAF like so:

    UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());

This is working great, however, I am trying to make a button have a red background, but ends up like this:

As you can see, I’m setting background and foreground on the button, but what results is not visually pleasing. Is there a way to have the button draw a red background without subclassing JButton?

Answer 1

For anybody who comes along the problem I did, here’s the solution I went with:

I switched to using an image added as a child of the button using ImageIcon:

    BufferedImage stopPicture = null;
    try {
        stopPicture = ImageIO.read(new File("stop.png"));
    } catch (IOException ex) { }
    JLabel picLabel = new JLabel(new ImageIcon( stopPicture ));
    JButton btnStop = new JButton("");
    btnStop.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
        public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
            SerialTest.getInstance().stopMoving();
        }
    });
    btnStop.add(picLabel);