How to set the background image of a button in java swing

Question

I want to change the background image of a JButton in swing,
The method : Button.setIcon (),
Set’s the icon only not the background, Is there a easy way to do that?

Answer 1

You can still use setIcon but you will need to set the alignment to make the text appear over the image

button.setHorizontalTextPosition(SwingConstants.CENTER);

Answer 2

One option is to subclass JButton, override paintComponent() method and paint the icon there.

Answer 3

The easy way use SynthLookAndFeel as described here or you could go with creating a class that extends JButton and provide a new implementation of paintComponent(Graphics g)