Selected toggle button background color

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Todd - 28 Aug 2007 20:12 GMT

Hello all,

I have searched this newsgroup for the answer as to how to change the
toggle button background color when it has been selected with no
viable results. By viable, I mean responses that worked when I
implemented them.

Prior responses are:

August 23, 2002: UIManager.put("ToggleButton.select", new
ColorUIResource(color));
August 6, 2004: UIManager.put("ToggleButton.select", Color.green);

If these are other ways of changing the selected (or activated)
background on a toggle button, I would love to know about them.

Thanks in advance for you help,
Todd

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Knute Johnson - 29 Aug 2007 04:19 GMT

> Hello all,
>
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> Thanks in advance for you help,
> Todd

Todd:

That's pretty much what I would have tried, and I did, but it doesn't
work as you already know. It appears that it changes the value in the
defaults but the color doesn't change. I guess I don't know how to do
it, sorry.

I did try to change the UIDefaults of the current LookAndFeel with the
same results.

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Roedy Green - 30 Aug 2007 04:34 GMT

>I have searched this newsgroup for the answer as to how to change the
>toggle button background color when it has been selected with no
>viable results. By viable, I mean responses that worked when I
>implemented them.

You can use an icon of various colours. See
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jbutton.html
This works fine. You can have variations for rollover, selected,
hovered, pressed etc etc. I have used this for years, so I know it
works.

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Michael Jung - 30 Aug 2007 19:38 GMT

> I have searched this newsgroup for the answer as to how to change the
> toggle button background color when it has been selected with no
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> ColorUIResource(color));
> August 6, 2004: UIManager.put("ToggleButton.select", Color.green);

Change the background in your eventlistener. That has the
advantage/disadvantage that it is keyed to a specific button. The above
solutions change them for all.

Michael

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