button background

Hi Samooramad,

    You can keep a reference to the last pressed button in a variable. When any button is pressed, change the color of the button in the variable to white and after that set the clicked button's color to yellow and save a reference to that button into the variable.

Kaitsu

this is with array of buttons

package org.prithvi.test;

import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;

/**
 * <p>Title: </p>
 * <p>Description: </p>
 * <p>Copyright: Copyright (c) 2004</p>
 * <p>Company: </p>
 * @author not attributable
 * @version 1.0
 */
import java.awt.event.*;

public class ButtonTest
    extends JFrame
    implements ActionListener {
  FlowLayout borderLayout1 = new FlowLayout();
  JButton buttons[] = new JButton[10];

  public ButtonTest() {
    try {
      jbInit();
    }
    catch (Exception ex) {
      ex.printStackTrace();
    }
  }

  void jbInit() throws Exception {
    this.getContentPane().setLayout(borderLayout1);
    JPanel panel1 = new JPanel();
    panel1.setLayout(borderLayout1);

    for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
      buttons[i] = new JButton("Hello" + i);
      buttons[i].addActionListener(this);
      panel1.add(buttons[i]);
    }

    this.getContentPane().add(panel1);

  }

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    ButtonTest buttonTest = new ButtonTest();
    buttonTest.setSize(500, 500);
    buttonTest.show();
  }

  /**
   * actionPerformed
   *
   * @param e ActionEvent
   */
  public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
    for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
      if (e.getSource() == buttons[i]) {
        buttons[i].setBackground(Color.YELLOW);
      }
      else {
        buttons[i].setBackground(Color.WHITE);
      }
    }

  }

}

This must be a bit efficient, maintains the last clicked in memory

package org.prithvi.test;

import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;

/**
 * <p>Title: </p>
 * <p>Description: </p>
 * <p>Copyright: Copyright (c) 2004</p>
 * <p>Company: </p>
 * @author not attributable
 * @version 1.0
 */
import java.awt.event.*;

public class ButtonTest
    extends JFrame
    implements ActionListener {
  FlowLayout borderLayout1 = new FlowLayout();
  JButton buttons[] = new JButton[10];
  JButton oldbutton;

  public ButtonTest() {
    try {
      jbInit();
    }
    catch (Exception ex) {
      ex.printStackTrace();
    }
  }

  void jbInit() throws Exception {
    this.getContentPane().setLayout(borderLayout1);
    JPanel panel1 = new JPanel();
    panel1.setLayout(borderLayout1);

    for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
      buttons[i] = new JButton("Hello" + i);
      buttons[i].addActionListener(this);
       buttons[i].setBackground(Color.WHITE);
      panel1.add(buttons[i]);
    }

    this.getContentPane().add(panel1);

  }

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    ButtonTest buttonTest = new ButtonTest();
    buttonTest.setSize(500, 500);
    buttonTest.show();
  }

  /**
   * actionPerformed
   *
   * @param e ActionEvent
   */
  public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
    for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
      if (e.getSource() == buttons[i]) {
        if (oldbutton != null) {
          oldbutton.setBackground(Color.WHITE);
        }
        buttons[i].setBackground(Color.YELLOW);
        oldbutton = buttons[i];
        break;
      }

    }

  }

}

thanks

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