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?
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);