Thread: How do i make my Jbutton ( with icon ) keep his collors when i disable him?

I made a Jbutton:

private JButton button1 = new JButton();

then my icon

ImageIcon icon = new ImageIcon("imagepath");

button1.setIcon(icon)

and later in the program I disable the button ( its a tic tac toe game ), but the icon also turns gray ( it is supossed to stay a red square ), and idk how to fix that.


( my first time posting, idk if i did ok, please post tips )

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You did fine on your first post. One or two lines of code outside code tags is fine, but more than that (roughly) should be posted inside tags.

Two options come immediate to mind:

1. Rewrite the default JButton behavior when disabled, or

2. instead of using the setEnable( false ) method that causes the undesired behavior, you could programmatically cause the button to be unselectable, unchangeable, un-whatever-you-need so that it retains its appearance but is no longer in play.

Number 2 is probably easier, but I haven't looked into doing number 1.

Option 3: Use the setDisabledIcon(Icon disabledIcon) method, passing to it the same icon used for button1.setIcon(icon). When the button is disabled, the button will be greyed out but its icon will not.