Custom JButton with different states, any ideas??

Question

Hey, hope you guys can help.
What I want to do is to implement a custom JButton class with different states for the button. The button should have a "pressed" state, where the user has pressed it, and if the action triggered by this pressing gets approved, it should get selected. It will then get a different color and border.
I will have several buttons of this type in one panel, and they can all have different states at any time.
I do not want to use JToggleButton, as it is not the user that decides if it should be selected or not, but the logic "behind" (the dataflow).
So I want like a combination of JButton and JToggleButton...
How do I do this, any ideas, please?

Answer 1

I am not to sure if this is the idea you have in mind but...
This is something i have used before it is a tool bar. the button could be managed by another event it is an event listener at the moment.
As well as update only a specified button rather than all?
public class ToolBar extends JToolBar {
    public ToolBar(EventListener el) {
        this.setName("ToolBar");
        String[] imageFiles = { "Left.gif", "Relationgif", "Reload.gif", "TrafficRed.gif", "Home.gif", "Print.gif", "Help.gif" };
        String[] toolbarLabels = { "Entity", "Relationship", "Reload", "Stop", "Home", "Print", "Help" };
        Insets margins = new Insets(3, 3, 3, 3);
        for(int counter = 0; counter < toolbarLabels.length; counter++) {
            ToolBarButton button = new ToolBarButton(imageFiles[counter]);
            button.setToolTipText(toolbarLabels[counter]);
            button.setMargin(margins);
            button.setName(imageFiles[counter]);
            button.setVerticalTextPosition(BOTTOM);
            button.setHorizontalTextPosition(CENTER);
          //  button.setMnemonic(KeyStroke.VK_CAPS_LOCK);
            button.addActionListener(el);
            add(button);
    public void setTextLabels(boolean showLabels) {
        Component c;
        int i = 0;
        while((c = getComponentAtIndex(i++)) != null) {
            ToolBarButton button = (ToolBarButton)c;
            if (showLabels)
                button.setText(button.getToolTipText());
            else
                button.setText("");
//each button on the tool bar is an object of this class
public class ToolBarButton extends JButton {
    private static final Insets margins = new Insets(3, 3, 3, 3);
    //user selected to view tool bar as image only (default)
    public ToolBarButton(Icon icon) {
        super(icon);
        setMargin(margins);
    //user selected to view tool bar as text only
    public ToolBarButton(String iconName) {
        this(new ImageIcon(iconName));
    //user selected to view tool bar as image and text
    public ToolBarButton(String iconImage, String iconName) {
        this(new ImageIcon(iconImage));
        setText(iconName);
}