Set JButton background color on windows

Question

I have a JButton which I want to set the background to a color.

JButton button = new JButton();
button.setVisible(true);
button.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(student_scroll.getWidth(), 50));
button.setBorder(BorderFactory.createLineBorder(Color.WHITE, 1));
button.setBackground(Color.BLACK);
button.setForeground(Color.WHITE);
button.setOpaque(true);

I used this for mac and it showed up as I wanted it to be. However, upon trying it on windows, the foreground is white(as it should) but the background is empty.

Setting background color to JButton

says to add button.setContentAreaFilled(false); which I did but had no effect. Most others say to add button.setOpaque(true);which I also did already.

What else do I have to do so that it will show up with a black background?

EDIT

As requested, the SSCCE:

import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Container;
import java.awt.Dimension;

import javax.swing.BorderFactory;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;
import javax.swing.UIManager;
import javax.swing.UnsupportedLookAndFeelException;

public class MainSwing extends JFrame {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = -8231889836024827530L;

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            System.setProperty("apple.laf.useScreenMenuBar", "true");
            System.setProperty("com.apple.mrj.application.apple.menu.about.name", "Test");
            UIManager.put("ScrollBarUI", "main.CustomScrollBarUI");
            UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());
    }
    catch(ClassNotFoundException e) {
            System.out.println("ClassNotFoundException: " + e.getMessage());
    }
    catch(InstantiationException e) {
            System.out.println("InstantiationException: " + e.getMessage());
    }
    catch(IllegalAccessException e) {
            System.out.println("IllegalAccessException: " + e.getMessage());
    }
    catch(UnsupportedLookAndFeelException e) {
            System.out.println("UnsupportedLookAndFeelException: " + e.getMessage());
    }
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater( new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                JFrame frame = new JFrame() {

                    Container c = getContentPane();
                    JButton button = new JButton("Hello");
                    {
                        button.setText("Hello");
                        button.setVisible(true);
                        button.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(100, 50));
                        button.setBorder(BorderFactory.createLineBorder(Color.WHITE, 1));
                        button.setBackground(Color.BLACK);
                        button.setForeground(Color.WHITE);
                        button.setOpaque(true);
                        c.add(button);
                    }

                };
                frame.setSize(500, 500);
                frame.setBackground(Color.BLACK);
                frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
                frame.setVisible(true);
            }
        });
    }
}

It seems that the problem has something to do with the line: UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName()); as when I remove it, the buttons are black.

Answer 1

I'm guessing from those UIManager key/value pairs that the PLAF is the OS X based Aqua PLAF. And that seems to be part of the problem here. Here it is without the content area filled on Windows.

import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;

public class MainSwing extends JFrame {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            System.setProperty("apple.laf.useScreenMenuBar", "true");
            System.setProperty("com.apple.mrj.application.apple.menu.about.name", "Test");
            UIManager.put("ScrollBarUI", "main.CustomScrollBarUI");
            UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace(); // more info for less LOC!
        }
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                JFrame frame = new JFrame() {

                    Container c = getContentPane();
                    JButton button = new JButton("Hello");

                    {
                        c.setLayout(new GridLayout(0,1));
                        c.add(new JButton("Hi"));
                        button.setText(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());
                        button.setVisible(true);
                        button.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(400, 100));
                        button.setBorder(BorderFactory.createLineBorder(Color.WHITE, 1));
                        button.setContentAreaFilled(false);
                        button.setBackground(Color.BLACK);
                        button.setForeground(Color.WHITE);
                        button.setOpaque(true);
                        c.add(button);
                    }
                };
                frame.pack();
                frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);
                frame.setVisible(true);
            }
        });
    }
}