How to change the mouse pointer to finger pointer in swing?

Question

In html when we create a hyperlink and point over it ,then it automatically changes to a finger pointer.

So I was wondering can we achieve the same in java swings. Suppose I have a label on clicking which a new form pops-up.But I want that when the user points over the label it should change to finger pointer,showing that something will pop-up if its clicked.In this way we can differentiate that label with normal labels on the form i guess :).

But how to do something like this?

Answer 1

You can set cursor of JLabel to Cursor.HAND_CURSOR using below code :

JLabel label = new JLabel("https://stackoverflow.com"); label.setCursor(Cursor.getPredefinedCursor(Cursor.HAND_CURSOR)); 

Answer 2

As said you'd want to call the setCursor() method on the JLabel and set it to Cursor.Hand_CURSOR to further this you can also underline the text to make it an HTML look alike link if you want :):

import java.awt.Color; import java.awt.Cursor; import java.awt.Desktop; import java.awt.Graphics; import java.awt.Insets; import java.awt.event.MouseAdapter; import java.awt.event.MouseEvent; import java.net.URI; import javax.swing.JLabel;  /**  *  * @author ludovicianul  */ public class URLLabel extends JLabel {      private String url;      public URLLabel() {         this("","");     }      public URLLabel(String label, String url) {         super(label);          this.url = url;         setForeground(Color.BLUE.darker());         setCursor(                 new Cursor(Cursor.HAND_CURSOR));         addMouseListener(                 new URLOpenAdapter());     }      public void setURL(String url) {         this.url = url;     }      //this is used to underline the text     @Override     protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) {         super.paintComponent(g);          g.setColor(Color.blue);          Insets insets = getInsets();          int left = insets.left;         if (getIcon() != null) {             left += getIcon().getIconWidth() + getIconTextGap();         }          g.drawLine(left, getHeight() - 1 - insets.bottom, (int) getPreferredSize().getWidth()                 - insets.right, getHeight() - 1 - insets.bottom);     }      private class URLOpenAdapter extends MouseAdapter {          @Override         public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) {             if (Desktop.isDesktopSupported()) {                 try {                     Desktop.getDesktop().browse(new URI(url));                 } catch (Throwable t) {                     //                 }             }         }     } } 

Reference:

• CREATING A URL JLABEL IN SWING