This is a screenshot of my current interface:
My JLabel
targetJlabel
is contained by a rectangle of property spany 2
with a red dotted border (I think, the rectangle is called a JComponent
?), and I'd like to fill all of that rectangle with a colour. However, I can't see how to set the background colour on anything but the JLabel
itself.
Here is my SSCCE:
package com.sample;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
public class App
{
public static void main( String[] args ) {
App program = new App();
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(program::run);
}
private void run() {
JFrame w = new JFrame();
w.setDefaultCloseOperation(WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
JPanel d = new JPanel();
d.setLayout(new MigLayout(
"debug, fill",
"[min!][min!][min!][min!][min!]",
"[][][grow]"));
JLabel targetJlabel = new JLabel("I want this colour to fill up to the dotted red line");
targetJlabel.setBackground(Color.CYAN);
targetJlabel.setOpaque(true);
d.add(targetJlabel, "spany 2");
d.add(new JTextField("type here"), "growx, spanx 3");
d.add(new JButton("Search"), "spany 2, wrap");
d.add(new JCheckBox("box1"));
d.add(new JCheckBox("box2"));
d.add(new JCheckBox("box3"), "wrap");
w.add(d);
w.pack();
w.setVisible(true);
}
}