Giving particular shape to JButton

Yes its possible to give any particular shape to a JButton, like Round or Rounded rectangle it's quiet easy, you can even give it a shape of polygon with many edges.

Refer to Apress publications, The Definitive Guide To Java Swing, June 2005, 3rd Edition, by John Zukowski. for more details.

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Swing_guya at 2007-7-12 15:18:07 >

well there is no limitation on what shape you can give to your button, they are only limited by one's visualization and creativity. I'll have to go through google and a few books, to see how complex shapes can be drawn, but i know it can be, i've seen an example recently.

For simple shapes you can implement the javax.swing.border.Border interface. and override the paintBorder(Component c, Graphics g, int x, int y, int width, int height) method to draw the border. This will give you some idea about the process.

Swing_guya at 2007-7-12 15:18:07 >