How to get JButton default background color?

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I use this myButton.setBackground(myColor) to change the JButton background color to my color, how to find it's original default background color so I can change it back? I know I can save its default background color before I change and use that, but I wonder if Java stores it somewhere so that maybe I can call something like: myButton.getClass.getDefaultBackground() to get it back ?

score 14 · Answer 1 · answered May 09 '14 at 11:44

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btn.setBackground(new JButton().getBackground());

how about this... it will get the default color of button

answered May 09 '14 at 11:44

Shiburagi

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This works and probably has pretty negligible overhead. I like it. – sage88 Oct 09 '14 at 04:11

score 10 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 19 '12 at 17:31

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myButton.setBackground(null)

changes it back to the default color.

answered Dec 19 '12 at 17:31

MoRe

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This changes it to null color, not default. – sage88 Jan 13 '13 at 06:44

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 31 '09 at 17:21

This might help:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/awt/SystemColor.html

Toolkit.getDesktopProperty(java.lang.String)
Toolkit.getDesktopProperty("control");
// control - The color rendered for the background of control panels and control objects, such as pushbuttons.

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 27 '19 at 09:23

It works both with:

button.setBackground(null);

and

button.setBackground(new JButton().getBackground());

(when you create a new JButton, its background color is initialized as a null color)
So, choose the one you consider to be the best for your project

score 0 · Answer 5 · edited Dec 05 '14 at 03:32

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Don't try to get background from Jframe or other elements to apply it on the button; if you already changed it do this:

ElementToStyle.setBackground(null);

edited Dec 05 '14 at 03:32

Kevin

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answered Dec 05 '14 at 03:28

Zpkno

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Welcome to StackOverflow, I edited your answer to make clarify your answer (still your content) and remove the insults. It's not a huge deal but it makes this site better as a whole. Again, welcome to StackOverflow and thank you for taking time to share your knowledge. – Kevin Dec 05 '14 at 03:38

score 0 · Answer 6 · edited Apr 05 '15 at 02:59

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make a new button "db"
make a new variable type Color "jbb"
i.e. - Color jbb = db.getBackground();

now the default background color is stored in the Color jbb which you can now use as the color you want to find/use

edited Apr 05 '15 at 02:59

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answered Apr 05 '15 at 02:22

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score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Jul 09 '18 at 16:29

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   Color cbt= jButton6.getBackground();

        String color_button=cbt.getRed()+","+cbt.getGreen()+","+cbt.getBlue();

if you wont get RGB color button try this code

answered Jul 09 '18 at 16:29

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