Thread: Creating circle-shaped JButtons?

Hi all,

JButtons by default creates rectangular buttons. I'd like to change the shape to a circle. The following is my code:

public void createButtons(JPanel bottomPanel) {
 
			JButton[] buttons = new JButton[16];
			String[] alphabets = { "A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F", "G", "H", "I", "J",
					"K", "L", "M", "N", "O", "P"}; 
 
			for (int i = 0; i < buttons.length; i++) {
				buttons[i] = new JButton(alphabets[i]);
				buttons[i].setSize(40, 40);
				buttons[i].setActionCommand(alphabets[i]);
				buttons[i].addActionListener(this);
 
				bottomPanel.add(buttons[i]);
			}
 
 
		}

The point is i want the shape of the buttons to be circular and not the default rectangular shape. Any ideas?