Icons
You can use an Icon inside a JLabel or anything that inherits from AbstractButton (including JButton, JCheckBox, JRadioButton, and the different kinds of JMenuItem). Using Icons with JLabels is quite straightforward (you’ll see an example later). The following example explores all the additional ways you can use Icons with buttons and their descendants.
You can use any gif files you want, but the ones used in this example are part of this book’s code distribution, available at www.BruceEckel.com. To open a file and bring in the image, simply create an ImageIcon and hand it the file name. From then on, you can use the resulting Icon in your program.
//: c14:Faces.java
// Icon behavior in Jbuttons.
// <applet code=Faces width=400 height=100></applet>
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.io.*;
import com.bruceeckel.swing.*;
public class Faces extends JApplet {
private static Icon[] faces;
private JButton jb, jb2 = new JButton("Disable");
private boolean mad = false;
public void init() {
faces = new Icon[] {
new ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("Face0.gif")),
new ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("Face1.gif")),
new ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("Face2.gif")),
new ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("Face3.gif")),
new ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("Face4.gif")),
};
jb = new JButton("JButton", faces[3]);
Container cp = getContentPane();
cp.setLayout(new FlowLayout());
jb.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
if(mad) {
jb.setIcon(faces[3]);
mad = false;
} else {
jb.setIcon(faces[0]);
mad = true;
}
jb.setVerticalAlignment(JButton.TOP);
jb.setHorizontalAlignment(JButton.LEFT);
}
});
jb.setRolloverEnabled(true);
jb.setRolloverIcon(faces[1]);
jb.setPressedIcon(faces[2]);
jb.setDisabledIcon(faces[4]);
jb.setToolTipText("Yow!");
cp.add(jb);
jb2.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
if(jb.isEnabled()) {
jb.setEnabled(false);
jb2.setText("Enable");
} else {
jb.setEnabled(true);
jb2.setText("Disable");
}
}
});
cp.add(jb2);
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
Console.run(new Faces(), 400, 200);
}
} ///:~
An Icon can be used as an argument for many different Swing component constructors, but you can also use setIcon( ) to add or change an Icon. This example also shows how a JButton (or any AbstractButton) can set the various different sorts of icons that appear when things happen to that button: when it’s pressed, disabled, or “rolled over” (the mouse moves over it without clicking). You’ll see that this gives the button a nice animated feel.
