How to change text color of a JButton

Question

I am writing a simple minesweeper game and it works now, but I am working on the pretty details like making each number a different color.

I keep running into errors when I try to set the text color on the JButton . I can change the text easily enough and the background, but not the text color specifically.

The part that keeps getting all mucked up is:

total = Integer.toString(count);
jb.setText(total);              
if(count == 1)
    jb.setTextColor(Color.blue);
if(count == 2)
    jb.setTextColor(Color.green);
if(count == 3)
    jb.setTextColor(Color.red);

For some reason my error is:

MS.java:109: error: cannot find symbol jb.setTextColor(Color.blue); ^ symbol: method setTextColor(Color) location: variable jb of type JButton MS.java:112: error: cannot find symbol jb.setTextColor(Color.green); ^ symbol: method setTextColor(Color) location: variable jb of type JButton MS.java:114: error: cannot find symbol jb.setTextColor(Color.red); ^ symbol: method setTextColor(Color) location: variable jb of type JButton 3 errors Process javac exited with code 1

This occurs whenever I try to compile, but when I change it to say setBackgroundColor instead of setTextColor it works just fine.

Answer 1

setTextColor is undefined for JButton. To set the JButton text color, you can use setForeground .

button.setForeground(Color.RED);