Buttons! Buttons?
I'm building a checkers game as a self exercise, and I've run into some fun with defining the board
64 JPanels for board squares within a Container as the board works pretty well visually. However, I can't addActionListener to a JPanel. I thought about adding the listener to the pieces themselves, which works fine and dandy until you try to just move a piece to an empty space. You can't, because clicking the space doesn't proc an action.
So I can't use JPanels, and I can't use the pieces themselves. I COULD make the board a set of buttons, but the buttons change color and look funny when you click them.
My question: is there a way to change the button faces and/or the way they react to being clicked?
OR
Any ideas for what I could use as board squares or for a board setup that would allow the clicking/action prompting I need?
