JCheckBox help is this possible?

[derekxec]

i have a JCheckBox on my GUI and i want it to look like this

cboxexample.JPG

is there a way i can make it blue under only the letters? i tried setbackground(Color.BLUE) but it makes the color go all the way around where the check mark and such is too but i only want it to go under the letters like that not the whole thing...so is this possible? i looked at the JCheckBox api but i didnt find anything that would let me put the color under the text or am i missing it?

[KevinWorkman]

The quick and dirty solution would be to just use a JLabel and a JCheckBox with no text and slap them into a JPanel. There's probably a better way though.

[derekxec]

that will work thanks

[KevinWorkman]

Actually the one thing that'll miss is clicking on the text to change the status of the check box. That's just a MouseListener though.

[SerratedMind]

There is a way to do this by using java.awt.font.TextAttribute and java.util.Map. This way you won't need a MouseListener. The general form, I believe would be like this:

Map<TextAttribute, Color> attributes = new Hashtable<TextAttribute, Color>();
attributes.put(TextAttribute.BACKGROUND, Color.YELLOW);
component.setFont( new Font(attributes) );

You may need to play around with it a bit but that should help you out.


EDIT: So I changed the code a bit and it seems Ok now. I got the code, basically, from Oracle

[derekxec]

thanks and that link has some other stuff i can use too