Dynamically change jButton icon

Question

I have a program that detects when certain machines are online and creates a button with a green "online" icon to show this. I want to add the functionality to check periodically if this machine is still online, and if it's not, change the icon to the "offline" icon that I've already defined.

Answer 1

I know how to set the icon, however I can't figure out a way to do it once the button has already been displayed

probably you have issues with Concurency in Swing , that means that all Swing code must be done on EDT

then you have to wrap myButton.setIcon(myIcon) to the invokeLater() , for example

SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {

    @Override
    public void run() {
        myButton.setIcon(myIcon);
    }
});

Answer 2

I have a program that detects when certain machines are online and creates a button with a green "online" icon to show this.

Use a JToggleButton instead, as shown here ¹ & here ² .

I can't figure out a way to do it once the button has already been displayed.

To toggle the state and fire an action event doClick() or alternately setSelected(boolean) .

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Answer 3

You should be able to do so using AbstractButton.setIcon() . It may require you to call invalidate() on the button to get the change displayed.

changeButton = new JButton(icon1);
changeButton.addActionListener(
    new ActionListener( )
    {
        private boolean flag = true;

        @Override
        public void actionPerformed( ActionEvent arg0 )
        {
            changeButton.setIcon( flag ? icon2 : icon1 );
            flag = !flag;
        }
    }
);
add(changeButton);

Answer 4

btn1.setIcon(new javax.swing.ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("/url.png")));

Answer 5

you can add an action listener on the button, then in its called function change the icon - here is an example :

public yourDialogSwing() {

        Yourbutton.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                onButtonPressed();
            }
        });
}

private void onButtonPressed() {
       YourButton.setIcon(YourButton.getPressedIcon());
}