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Asked: 2026-05-28T14:36:33+00:00

I’m making minesweeper for a school project. When the player wins or loses, the

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I’m making minesweeper for a school project. When the player wins or loses, the mines are revealed. Their buttons are disabled, and icons of flags/mines will appear. The problem is that the icons turn grey when the buttons are disabled. Is there a way around this?

I have also tried setting the text of the JButton to something like "<html><img src=\"res\\mine.png\"/></html>" but it showed some weird image.

Update:
I tried using setDisabledIcon() but nothing’s showing up. Here’s some pseudo-code

The buttons I use for the minefield is a class called Field, which extends JButton

mouseReleased(mouseEvent e) {
    Field fieldClicked = (Field)e.getSource();

    if fieldClicked is mine {
        fieldClicked.setEnabled(false);
        gameTimer.stop();
        setLost(true);

        loop through 2D array of fields {
            if field is a mine {
                field.setDisabledIcon(Field.mineIcon);// public static final icon of Field. mineIcon = new ImageIcon("res\\mine.png")
                field.setEnabled(false);
            }
        }
    }
}
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  1. Editorial Team

    Figured this out in a test

    For some reason

    clickedButton.setDisabledIcon(mineIcon)

    Alone doesn’t do anything.

    But:

    clickedButton.setIcon(mineIcon)
clickedButton.setDisabledIcon(mineIcon)

    Will show whatever icon I wanted

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