How do you remove the selection box in the GUI?

Question

In any program, or at least most, when you select a button or anything, there is a selection box made of lines which are made of dots.

How do you get rid of that box?

The reason why I want to do this is because I have a button with an image, no contentFill, no borders, and it looks very awkward when selected.

Hovercraft Full Of Eels · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-03T23:00:55.650

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Make the button or component non-focusable by calling its setFocusable(...) method:

myButton.setFocusable(false);

Edit
... or maybe even better:

myButton.setFocusPainted(false);

This way the component can still get the focus if need be, but just doesn't show the focus border.

edited May 03 '13 at 23:00

answered May 03 '13 at 22:24

Also please have a look at mKorbel's answer [here](http://stackoverflow.com/a/13422861/522444). – Hovercraft Full Of Eels May 03 '13 at 23:12
Thank you so much, I apologize for asking an already answered question, I didn't know how to call it while looking for an answer – Ted May 04 '13 at 11:11

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