Mouse over events with JButton

Question

I\'m trying to create a custom mouse over event on a JButton. The reason being that my JButton is currently an image, so I had to remove all the borders and animations and w

Answer 1

As an alternative You can achieve this by registering MouseListener to the JButton and override mouseEntered() ,mouseExited() , mousePressed() and mouseReleased() method.For Example:

        final ImageIcon icon1 = new ImageIcon("tray.gif");
        final JButton button = new JButton(icon1);
        final int width = icon1.getIconWidth();
        final int height = icon1.getIconHeight();
        button.addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter()
        {
            public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent evt)
            {
                icon1.setImage((icon1.getImage().getScaledInstance(width + 10, height,Image.SCALE_SMOOTH)));
                //button.setIcon(icon1);
            }
            public void mouseExited(MouseEvent evt)
            {
                icon1.setImage((icon1.getImage().getScaledInstance(width , height,Image.SCALE_SMOOTH)));
            }
            public void mousePressed(MouseEvent evt)
            {
                icon1.setImage((icon1.getImage().getScaledInstance(width + 5, height,Image.SCALE_SMOOTH)));
            }
            public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent evt)
            {
                icon1.setImage((icon1.getImage().getScaledInstance(width + 10, height,Image.SCALE_SMOOTH)));
            }
        });
        button.setOpaque(false);
        button.setContentAreaFilled(false);
        button.setBorderPainted(false);

Answer 2

1. for Icon to use implemented methods in API

2. you can to use ButtonModel with ChangeListener

3. (by default) for JButtons JComponents there no reason to use Mouse(Xxx)Listener or its MouseEvent, all those events are implemented and correctly