How do you make an Image a Button?

[sh00ter555]

hi, i finally figured out how to make an image appear on the screen and now i was wondering how i can make the image a button. I want the image to activate one of my methods in my program when it is clicked on. How do i do this?

[ractoc]

link it to a mouseEvent and a mouseEventListener

[sh00ter555]

ok....But how do i do that? Im kind of a beginner to java graphics. Some code would be great if u have the time to show me. Cause i dont know how to link it to a mouseEvent and a mouseEventListener

[Phaelax]

How's this?

    JButton myButton = makeImageButton(new ImageIcon("normal.gif"), new ImageIcon("hover.gif"));
    
    private JButton makeImageButton(ImageIcon normal, ImageIcon pressed)
    {
        JButton b = new JButton(normal);
        b.setPressedIcon(pressed);        
        b.setMargin(new Insets(0,0,0,0));
        b.setContentAreaFilled(false);
        b.setBorderPainted(false);
        b.setFocusPainted(false);
            
        return b;
    }

[sh00ter555]

im kinda lookin for something more basic if possible.

however, when i typed in the code, it couldnt find class JButton. what class do i need to import to fix this problem?

[Manticor]

If you are trying to use the JButton class type

import javax.swing.JButton

at the top of the java document


Go to this website for all of the java api and all the java classes
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/index.html