setBackground(Color c) for JButton and JLabel

[LawrenceLi]

HI
I have tried the following code on Swing Designer v6.4.0 and v6.4.1(eclipse 3.2 and 3.3).

JPanel jp = new JPanel();
jp.setPreferredSize(new java.awt.Dimension(400,400));

final JButton button = new JButton("button");
button.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(111, 111));
button.setBackground(Color.BLACK);
jp.add(button);


However, non of the versions work for the button.setBackground(Color.BLACK);.It seems just the border color has been changed to black. I am wondering if this is a bug of swing designer? I tried JPanel and JRadioButton, they works for setBackground method...

Looking forward to hearing your reply.

Cheers
Peng

[Eric Clayberg]

The background color of the button depends entirely on which Look & Feel you are using. Swing's standard Windows L&F emulates Windows standard behavior which sets a buttons background based on the current Windows theme. Other L&F's like Metal and Motif will show the background color.

So...no, this is not a bug. It is working exactly like expected given this "feature" of Sun's underlying Swing implementation.