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Tapan kumar Rath

Posts: 18
Nickname: papuni
Registered: Sep, 2005

circular buttons

Posted: Dec 9, 2005 12:41 AM

Hi
I want 20 circular buttons in my application.The buttons would perform different actions.I would like to pass the color and text to be displayed as arguments to the buttons.
Any Ideas.

Kondwani Mkandawire

Posts: 530
Nickname: spike
Registered: Aug, 2004

Re: circular buttons

Posted: Dec 9, 2005 2:35 AM

Swing or a Web App? Radio Buttons or Actual Buttons
like the one you see when you hit Submit?

If a Web App, is it an Applet or would you like
to use the ones supplied with HTML?

Tapan kumar Rath

Posts: 18
Nickname: papuni
Registered: Sep, 2005

Re: circular buttons

Posted: Dec 9, 2005 5:04 AM

I meant Swing Application.

Kondwani Mkandawire

Posts: 530
Nickname: spike
Registered: Aug, 2004

Re: circular buttons

Posted: Dec 9, 2005 5:17 AM

Still don't know if you mean RadioButtons or Actual Buttons.
But here is a possiblity:

JButton someButton = new JButton("Button A");
 
public void setButtonColor(Color color){
    someButton.setBackground(color);
}

or with JRadioButtons you will have:

JRadioButton someButton = new JRadioButton("Button A");
public void setButtonColor(Color color){
    someButton.setForeground(color);
    //  or you could also set background
}

Kondwani Mkandawire

Posts: 530
Nickname: spike
Registered: Aug, 2004

Re: circular buttons

Posted: Dec 9, 2005 5:20 AM

Ooops sorry for the text you just write another method
(or may do it in the same method Just add the second
parameter as a String:

public void setText(String text){
   someButton.setText(text);
}

or in the Same Method:
public void setColorAndText(Color color, String text){
someButton.setBackground(color);
someButton.setText(text);
}
[/java]

Tapan kumar Rath

Posts: 18
Nickname: papuni
Registered: Sep, 2005

Re: circular buttons

Posted: Dec 9, 2005 8:06 PM

I don't need radio buttons.It might be regular buttons or something else which looks circular in shape,border is raised, but functions like a button.I have a vogue idea that I would have to draw a circle on a canvas.I would add appropriate event listeners to it to make it work like a button.Finally I would add it to my JFrame.
Or is there any easy way out.

Matthias Neumair

Posts: 660
Nickname: neumi
Registered: Sep, 2003

Re: circular buttons

Posted: Dec 12, 2005 12:14 AM

Create a class wich extends JButton and overwrites the paint-Method.

Tapan kumar Rath

Posts: 18
Nickname: papuni
Registered: Sep, 2005

Re: circular buttons

Posted: Dec 20, 2005 12:17 AM

Thanks Matthias and all who replied.It's working.

saksham kum

Posts: 1
Nickname: sakshamkum
Registered: Jun, 2009

Re: circular buttons

Posted: Jun 18, 2009 12:46 AM

Hi,
I am trying to do the same.
I have read the replies but what exactly to do?

How can I change the shape by overwriting the paint() method?

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