I asked here how to add background image to JComboBox properly, but didn't see answers, so i thought that i should separate these two questions...
So. How to add background image to JComboBox text field and to JComboBox popup panel properly?
UPD: Some code for you)
Current code:
// ... Renderer
public class CBoxListCellRenderer implements ListCellRenderer {
ImagePanel panel;
JLabel label = new JLabel();
public CBoxListCellRenderer(Image img) {panel = new ImagePanel(img);}
public void setImage(Image img) {panel.setImage(img);}
@Override
public Component getListCellRendererComponent(JList list, Object value, int index, boolean isSelected, boolean cellHasFocus) {
label.setText(value.toString());
panel.add(label);
return panel;
}
}
// ... ImagePanel
public class ImagePanel extends JPanel {
private BufferedImage img;
public ImagePanel(String img) {
setImage(img);
}
public void setImage(String img)
{
try {
this.img = ImageIO.read(this.getClass().getResource(img));
} catch (IOException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
Dimension size = new Dimension(this.img.getWidth(), this.img.getHeight());
setSize(size);
}
@Override
public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
g.drawImage(img, 0, 0, getWidth(), getHeight(), 0, 0, img.getWidth(), img.getHeight(), this);
}
}
// ... Colorizing arrow
class ColorArrowUI extends BasicComboBoxUI {
public static ComboBoxUI createUI(JComponent c) {
return new ColorArrowUI();
}
@Override protected JButton createArrowButton() {
return new BasicArrowButton(
BasicArrowButton.SOUTH,
Color.cyan, Color.magenta,
Color.yellow, Color.blue);
}
}
// ... Creating object
combo_language = new JComboBox(new DefaultComboBoxModel(new String[] { "English", "日本語", "Русский" }));
combo_language.setBorder(null);
combo_language.setRenderer(new CBoxListCellRenderer(new ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("/Images/form.png")).getImage()));
combo_language.setUI(new ColorArrowUI());
// ... Putting JComboBox to JFrame
Here's an example of a custom ListCellRenderer
. I return a JPanel
that has painted an image to it then added a JLabel
that holds the value of the list object. There's room for improvement on it, but it's just an example of what you can do.
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import javax.swing.*;
public class TestCBoxListCellRenderer {
public TestCBoxListCellRenderer() {
String[] list = {"Hello World 1", "Hello World 2", "Hello World 3"};
JComboBox box = new JComboBox(list);
box.setRenderer(new CBoxListCellRenderer());
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, box, "Check out this Renderer", JOptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE);
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
new TestCBoxListCellRenderer();
}
class BackGroundPanel extends JPanel {
BufferedImage img = null;
public BackGroundPanel() {
try {
img = ImageIO.read(TestCBoxListCellRenderer.class.getResource("/res/leafcell.png"));
} catch (IOException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
}
@Override
protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
super.paintComponent(g);
g.drawImage(img, 0, 0, getWidth(), getHeight(),
0, 0, img.getWidth(), img.getHeight(), this);
}
}
private class CBoxListCellRenderer implements ListCellRenderer {
final BackGroundPanel panel = new BackGroundPanel();
JLabel label = new JLabel();
@Override
public Component getListCellRendererComponent(JList list, Object value, int index, boolean isSelected, boolean cellHasFocus) {
label.setText(value.toString());
panel.add(label);
return panel;
}
}
}
You may want to add a thin line border or do something when its selected, its up to you. Use the variables from the getListCellRendererComponent
method to render to your liking accordingly