A Java JButton example, showing ImageIcon, actionPerformed, setEnabled, setMnemonic, and setToolTipText

The following source code example comes from Sun Microsystems, and shows various things related to showing and clicking a JButton, including using the JButton class, ActionListener, ActionEvent, ImageIcon, setEnabled, setMnemonic, setToolTipText, and actionPerformed.

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import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;

import javax.swing.AbstractButton;
import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;

/**
 * SwingButtonDemo.java is a 1.4 application that requires the following files:
 * images/right.gif images/middle.gif images/left.gif
 */
public class SwingButtonDemo extends JPanel implements ActionListener {
  protected JButton b1, b2, b3;

  public SwingButtonDemo() {
    ImageIcon leftButtonIcon = createImageIcon("images/right.gif");
    ImageIcon middleButtonIcon = createImageIcon("images/middle.gif");
    ImageIcon rightButtonIcon = createImageIcon("images/left.gif");

    b1 = new JButton("Disable middle button", leftButtonIcon);
    b1.setVerticalTextPosition(AbstractButton.CENTER);
    b1.setHorizontalTextPosition(AbstractButton.LEADING); //aka LEFT, for
    // left-to-right
    // locales
    b1.setMnemonic(KeyEvent.VK_D);
    b1.setActionCommand("disable");

    b2 = new JButton("Middle button", middleButtonIcon);
    b2.setVerticalTextPosition(AbstractButton.BOTTOM);
    b2.setHorizontalTextPosition(AbstractButton.CENTER);
    b2.setMnemonic(KeyEvent.VK_M);

    b3 = new JButton("Enable middle button", rightButtonIcon);
    //Use the default text position of CENTER, TRAILING (RIGHT).
    b3.setMnemonic(KeyEvent.VK_E);
    b3.setActionCommand("enable");
    b3.setEnabled(false);

    //Listen for actions on buttons 1 and 3.
    b1.addActionListener(this);
    b3.addActionListener(this);

    b1.setToolTipText("Click this button to disable the middle button.");
    b2.setToolTipText("This middle button does nothing when you click it.");
    b3.setToolTipText("Click this button to enable the middle button.");

    //Add Components to this container, using the default FlowLayout.
    add(b1);
    add(b2);
    add(b3);
  }

  public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
    if ("disable".equals(e.getActionCommand())) {
      b2.setEnabled(false);
      b1.setEnabled(false);
      b3.setEnabled(true);
    } else {
      b2.setEnabled(true);
      b1.setEnabled(true);
      b3.setEnabled(false);
    }
  }

  /** Returns an ImageIcon, or null if the path was invalid. */
  protected static ImageIcon createImageIcon(String path) {
    java.net.URL imgURL = SwingButtonDemo.class.getResource(path);
    if (imgURL != null) {
      return new ImageIcon(imgURL);
    } else {
      System.err.println("Couldn't find file: " + path);
      return null;
    }
  }

  /**
   * Create the GUI and show it. For thread safety, this method should be
   * invoked from the event-dispatching thread.
   */
  private static void createAndShowGUI() {
    //Make sure we have nice window decorations.
    JFrame.setDefaultLookAndFeelDecorated(true);

    //Create and set up the window.
    JFrame frame = new JFrame("SwingButtonDemo");
    frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);

    //Create and set up the content pane.
    SwingButtonDemo newContentPane = new SwingButtonDemo();
    newContentPane.setOpaque(true); //content panes must be opaque
    frame.setContentPane(newContentPane);

    //Display the window.
    frame.pack();
    frame.setVisible(true);
  }

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    //Schedule a job for the event-dispatching thread:
    //creating and showing this application's GUI.
    javax.swing.SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
      public void run() {
        createAndShowGUI();
      }
    });
  }
}