Disable « Button « Java Swing Q&A





1. Mac OS X Java Swing Buttons are Disabled for no aparent reason    stackoverflow.com

I wrote an application in Java and when it runs on one customer's computer running OS X The Save and Export buttons are disabled. (Everything else works in the application.) Both of ...

2. How to disable (or hide) the close (x) button on a JFrame?    stackoverflow.com

I have a window (derived from JFrame) and I want to disable the close button during certain operations which are not interruptible. I know I can make the button not ...

3. How do I disable the Cancel Button when using javax.swing.ProgressMonitor?    stackoverflow.com

I'd like to make use of ProgressMonitor's functionality but I don't want to give the user the option of canceling the action. I know if I don't call isCanceled() then ...

4. JButton question    stackoverflow.com

Can you disable a JButton without graying out the button itself? When you use setEnbaled(false), the button disables and turns to gray. Is it possible to disable the button but make ...

5. How to change the look of a disabled JButton in java    stackoverflow.com

I am making a game and when I disable a button with setEnabled(false); the buttons turn grey which clashes with the other colors in the game. Is their a way ...

6. How to disable javax.swing.JButton in java?    stackoverflow.com

I have created a swings application and there is a "Start" button on the GUI. I want that whenever I clicked on that "Start" button, the start button should be disabled ...

7. how to disable minimize button in frame?    stackoverflow.com

can i disable minimize button in frame?how?(i hav already tried setUndecorated() and setResizable().both didnt work). i m trying to add imags to a panel at a random location which i m able ...

8. JButtons re-enable themselves after being disabled    stackoverflow.com

I have an array of JButtons which form a keypad interface. After six numbers are entered I want to disable the keypad so that no further numbers can be entered by ...

9. How to disable JSplitPane arrow button    stackoverflow.com

How do I disable(grey-out) the arrow button on the JSplitPane. I do know how to get the button from BasicSplitPaneDivider like this:

final int UP_ARROW = 0;
final BasicSplitPaneUI ui = (BasicSplitPaneUI) splitPane.getUI();
final ...





10. Reading Disabled JButtons with JAWS    stackoverflow.com

I have a requirement that disabled JButton be read by JAWS version 9. i.e. if I have a JButton with the text "True", it ought to be read something like "True, ...

11. Disabled Jbutton Swing not working well    stackoverflow.com

I have a problem with Swing JButtons. I'm working with Netbeans. When I disable a JButton in the GUI Builder it still fires the actions attached as events, i.e. I have ...

12. button event still works with button disabled    stackoverflow.com

private void button_Clicked_download(MouseEvent e) {
      button_dl.setEnabled(false);
      System.out.println("Button Clicked.");
}
When I click the button the button looks disabled. However the button still executes ...

13. How to change the text color of a disabled button to black in Java (NetBeans)?    stackoverflow.com

I'm developing a GUI in Java by use of NetBeans and I like to change the text color of a disabled button to black. The following command is working fine with a ...

14. Problem in Disabling JButton in Java    stackoverflow.com

Good day! I want to disable a button once I click it. My code is as follows..

for (char buttonChar = 'a'; buttonChar <= 'z'; buttonChar++) {
       ...

15. Is it possible to disable a JSpinner down arrow button? How?    stackoverflow.com

I have a JSpinner wich starts at 0 and when its value is 0, its down arrow button should be disabled so the value does not change. Does anyone knows how ...

16. What method can I override to trigger events when a subclass of JButton is enabled/disabled    stackoverflow.com

I've created a sub-class of JButton. I was able to override mouse events with the following code:

@Override
protected void processMouseEvent(MouseEvent e) {
    super.processMouseEvent(e);
    // My ...





17. Why loop disabled other button or swing components?    stackoverflow.com

When I pressed a jbutton with a for loop event inside it, other components became disabled. Here is the code I have from my jbutton:

    try{
    ...

18. Enabling/Disabling JButtons    stackoverflow.com

I'm developing a small photo editing application and would like the JButtons disabled until the user loads an image, at which point I want the buttons to become enabled(clickable). My thinking ...

19. Set JButton so that it cannot be pressed or to temporary disable actionListener    stackoverflow.com

I have actionListener on JButtons and if I press one of them, I want to somehow disable actionlistener on other ones without removing it. Is it possible or do I have to ...

20. Disable tooltip for disabled buttons    stackoverflow.com

I am working on a swing gui which have many buttons. I have many actions in which buttons disable and enable at times. I want to set tooltips for only enabled ...

21. set default disabled font color for JRadioButton    stackoverflow.com

I have a JRadioButton with some text, containing html code. When I set it to disabled, color of text doesn't changed to gray or something else. How can I set it ...

22. How to Disable GUI Button in Java    stackoverflow.com

so I have this small piece of code for my GUI:

import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Component;
import java.awt.Dimension;

import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.border.EmptyBorder;
import javax.swing.BoxLayout;
import javax.swing.JSeparator;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;


public class IPGUI extends JFrame implements ActionListener 
{
   ...

23. How to disable a JButton on certain clause?    stackoverflow.com

I am making a small project, and in it I have a JFrame with 5 JButtons. 3 JButtons are of primary concern and are enabled by default. What I want is until ...

24. MigLayout, disable JButton width resize    stackoverflow.com

I have a button layout something like this enter image description here But the problem is Text 1 and Text 2 is changing dynamically which screw up the whole button ...

25. Set a different disabled color for two different JButtons? (UIManager.getDefaults changes both buttons)    stackoverflow.com

I am trying to make one button have a disabled text of Red and the other disabled text of Blue, but when using the following code all it does is just ...

26. disable int spinner plus (only) button    stackoverflow.com

The code below works great for when the user assigns the total amount of stat points I allocate. However, I would love to only disable the plus button, so they could ...

27. how to enable only text on disabled jButton?    forums.netbeans.org

Hi, i have a JFrame on which i have placed a button called "Next", this button is disabled initially, after he does few operations it ll be enabled, but my problem is when the button is disabled the text on button is not displayed, it is blank. Please help me out. Regards Sandeep

29. How to Disable Minimize button in JFrame ? - URGENT    coderanch.com

Make a graphic for a close button, load it as an imageicon, and add it to a JButton. Put that JButton in the upper right hand corner, and in it's actionListener that closes the window or exits the program. Moving the window is a bit more of a problem... you'll either have to add a component that listens for the movement ...

30. disabling a JButton[urgent]    coderanch.com

32. how to disable resize button    coderanch.com

Hello, I tried to find he answer in this forum and there are some answers but not what I am looking for. My objective is to have a window where a end user can minimize,close but cannot resize. The problem is if I use setresizable() method it does not provide me the minimize button. Can some body help me to acheive ...

33. Disabled button still clickable    coderanch.com

34. How I can disable maximise button??    coderanch.com

35. Disabled JButton text appears blank!!    coderanch.com

I had some weird behavior happen to me on XP with 1.4 when it came to JSplitPanes. I run on Linux, Solaris, NT and XP. It only showed up on XP with JDK 1.4. I noticed a new JDK 1.4.1 and after putting that on my machine the problem went away. Any time you see different behavior for a standard Swing ...

36. Disabling a button for a few seconds    coderanch.com

We have an application where we want to prevent the user from hitting a submit button 20 times in a row, in case the refresh is a little slow. This seems easy, but I'm not quite getting it right. I know I'm missing something obvious. Here's my code: // m_allowTradeSubmission has scope within // the instance of this class, as does ...

38. How to disable buttonGroup    coderanch.com

Hello, I am looking for a way to disable a buttonGroup, but can not seem to find a disable option. Basically what I am looking for is to have the entire group disabled (grayed out) When the user has enters information into a text field then I want the buttonGroup enabled. Any ideas on how to disable the entire group? Thanks, ...

39. JButton enabling and disabling    coderanch.com

I have some text fields an an ok and cancel buttons. I want the program in such a way that the ok button is disabled what there in no nothing in the text field an becomes enabled when somthing is typed into the text field. Also when the cancel button is pressed, ann the numbers ib the text field get erased. ...

41. JFrame disable minimize button (jdk1.3)    coderanch.com

Hello Eric, for deiconified or iconified u can use the method frame1.setExtendedState(0) or frame1.setExtendedState(1) along this u has to use frame1.show() and frame1.toFront(); just simplecode is this ****************** if (frame1.getExtendedState()==1){ frame1.setExtendedState(0); } frame1.show(); frame1.toFront(); ************ from this code it check if it is iconified it get deconified or do what u need Regards, Ravi

43. Disabling JButton "pressed" feature    coderanch.com

All, I'm using the JButton built-in rollover effect (setRolloverIcon, etc.) and the icons change when the user moves their mouse over the button. However, one annoying effect that I'm trying to remove is that when the user actually presses or clicks on the button you can see the outline of the actual button (this is because the icon doesn't cover the ...

44. JRadioButton and enable/disable the title of a titlebordered JPanel    coderanch.com

import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; import javax.swing.*; import javax.swing.border.*; class Testing extends JFrame { public Testing() { setSize(400,300); setLocation(400,300); setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE); JPanel p = new JPanel(); final JPanel p1 = new JPanel(); p1.setBorder(BorderFactory.createTitledBorder("Panel")); p1.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(100,100)); p.add(p1); getContentPane().add(p,BorderLayout.CENTER); final JCheckBox cbx = new JCheckBox("Disable Panel"); getContentPane().add(cbx,BorderLayout.SOUTH); cbx.addActionListener(new ActionListener(){ public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae){ UIManager.put("TitledBorder.titleColor", cbx.isSelected()? new javax.swing.plaf.ColorUIResource(Color.GRAY): new javax.swing.plaf.ColorUIResource(Color.BLACK)); SwingUtilities.updateComponentTreeUI(Testing.this); } }); } public static ...

46. one button enabled/disabled when some other button pressed/not pressed    coderanch.com

Hi there: How can I do what the title says? For example, I create three buttons: "Edit Mode", "Watch Mode", "Draw Shape" I know that I need to use toggle button for the first two (user can be in only one mode at a time). What I want is, all three buttons are shown on a GUI, but the third button ...

47. How to approach to disable or enable JButtons regarding user access status?    coderanch.com

Hello, I'm trying to create a simple GUI with couple of buttons and 2 different users. I would like to use the same GUI for "user" and "admin" where some of those buttons are disabled for "user". I have imagined that I would create a template GUI with all the buttons and on run-time it will decide whether to disable certain ...

49. freeze radioButton without disable them    java-forums.org

I don't know if there is a "proper" way to do this, but it can be done by, 1) removing all mouse listeners from the radio button so it can't respond to clicks, and 2) make the radio button not allow focus so it can't respond to space bar presses. For instance: Java Code: import java.awt.event.ActionEvent; import java.awt.event.ActionListener; import java.awt.event.MouseListener; import ...

50. how to make graphic 'painted' on a button visible after disabling??    java-forums.org

I want to "paint" a graphic on a button. This is how I did it in actionPerformed() : repaint(); remove(b); The prob is..i hv more thn one button..when the next button is clicked, the graphic on the prev. button is turning black(I earlier set it to blue).. how cn I correct this??

51. disable a java.awt.Button but not greying it out    java-forums.org

Hi well After struggling a bit found a relatively decent solution incase it helps some one else I am posting it here: Add the label to a panel in GridbagLayout with the insets on left , right and top 1 pixel. Make the label and button different colours for e.g.: java.awt.Panel panel = new Panel(); panel.setLayout(new GridBagLayout() ); label = new ...

52. Disable Maximize button in JFrame?    java-forums.org

53. how to enable only text on disabled jButton?    java-forums.org

Hi, i have a JFrame on which i have placed a button called "Next", this button is disabled initially, after he does few operations it ll be enabled, but my problem is when the button is disabled the text on button is not displayed, it is blank. Please help me out. Regards Sandeep

54. Disabled JButton font color    forums.oracle.com

Why would you want to make it appear as "enabled" if it is not? Just to annoy the user? If you want to not allow it to show up as "disabled", then don't disable it. You can always conditionally do logic in the button's action event handler, so that it does nothing when clicked if you want to.

55. disable gui buttons while excuting script    forums.oracle.com

57. JButton disabled and mnemonic problems    forums.oracle.com

58. HOW TO MAKE A JBUTTON NOT TO LOOK DISABLED WHEN IT IS setEnabled(false);    forums.oracle.com

how do i make a jbutton not look disabled when i setEnabled(false) because when u disabled abutton it changes and takes away the frame of the button it self..is there a way to make it make a sound when its disabled and not take the frame away...example look at windows calculator when u have an answer for example 2 + 2 ...

59. Can a JButton be unclickable but not disabled?    forums.oracle.com

they are just text X's and O's the reason I want the button to be disabled is so that the other user can't click the button and change the other player's move, so I basically just wan't the button not to be able to be clicked after a player has gone, and also retain it's color properties. Thanks.