Actions and buttons

Question

Hi
I got a button with 3 types of icons. pressed,normal and disabled.
I have created an action for the button and i would like to use this action to detrmin if the button is enabled or not
(like explianed in: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/misc/example-1dot4/index.html#ActionDemo)
My problem is that icon is not fully dispalyed - I know the button icon should be effected by the action icon but - the action can only have one icon...
any ideas?
editModeHandler = new EditModeHandler(this, TagsLoader.getEditModeTag());
        btnEditMode = new StandardButton(TagsLoader.getEditModeTag());
        btnEditMode.setIcon(GeneralConstants.EditModeIcon);
        btnEditMode.setDisabledIcon(GeneralConstants.EditModeDisabledIcon);
        btnEditMode.setPressedIcon(GeneralConstants.EditModePressedIcon);
btnEditMode.setAction(editModeHandler );Regards,
Liat

Answer 1

Here you go (see how the same action is added to a JMenu, a JToolbar and a regular JButton with different icons shown) :import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicButtonUI;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.*;
import java.beans.PropertyChangeListener;
public class MultiIconButtonTest {
     private static final String ICON_BIG = "bigIcon";
     private static final String ICON_BIG_DISABLED = "bigDisabledIcon";
     private static final String ICON_BIG_PRESSED = "bigPressedIcon";
     private static class MultiIconAction extends AbstractAction {
          public MultiIconAction(String aName, Icon aSmallIcon, Icon aBigIcon, Icon aBigDisabledIcon, Icon aBigPressedIcon) {
               super(aName, aSmallIcon);
               putValue(ICON_BIG, aBigIcon);
               putValue(ICON_BIG_DISABLED, aBigDisabledIcon);
               putValue(ICON_BIG_PRESSED, aBigPressedIcon);
          public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
               System.out.println("And...... ACTION!!!");
     private static class MultiIconButton extends JButton {
          public MultiIconButton(Action anAction) {
               super(anAction);
          protected void configurePropertiesFromAction(Action a) {
               Integer n = (a==null) ? null : (Integer)a.getValue(Action.MNEMONIC_KEY);
               setMnemonic(n==null ? '\0' : n.intValue());
               setText(a!=null ? (String)a.getValue(Action.NAME) : null);
               setToolTipText(a!=null ? (String)a.getValue(Action.SHORT_DESCRIPTION) : null);
               setIcon(a!=null ? (Icon)a.getValue(ICON_BIG) : null);
               setDisabledIcon(a!= null ? (Icon)a.getValue(ICON_BIG_DISABLED) : null);
               setPressedIcon(a!=null ? (Icon)a.getValue(ICON_BIG_PRESSED) : null);
               setActionCommand(a!=null? (String)a.getValue(Action.ACTION_COMMAND_KEY) : null);
               setEnabled(a!=null ? a.isEnabled() : true);
     private static class MultiIconEnabledToolBar extends JToolBar {
          public JButton add(Action a) {
               if (!(a instanceof MultiIconAction)) {
                    return super.add(a);
               JButton b = new MultiIconButton(a) {
                    protected PropertyChangeListener createActionPropertyChangeListener(Action a) {
                         PropertyChangeListener pcl = createActionChangeListener(this);
                         if (pcl == null) {
                              pcl = super.createActionPropertyChangeListener(a);
                         return pcl;
               b.setText("");
               b.setHorizontalTextPosition(JButton.CENTER);
               b.setVerticalTextPosition(JButton.BOTTOM);
               add(b);
               return b;
     private static Icon[] loadIcons() {
          Icon[] icons = new Icon[4];
          try {
               icons[0] = new ImageIcon(new URL("http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/components/example-1dot4/images/middle.gif"));
               icons[1] = new ImageIcon(new URL("http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/components/example-1dot4/images/tumble/T1.gif"));
               icons[2] = new ImageIcon(new URL("http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/components/example-1dot4/images/tumble/T2.gif"));
               icons[3] = new ImageIcon(new URL("http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/components/example-1dot4/images/tumble/T3.gif"));
          } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
               e.printStackTrace();
               return null;
          return icons;
     public static void main(String[] args) {
          Icon[] icons = loadIcons();
          if (icons == null) System.exit(1);
          final JFrame frame = new JFrame(MultiIconButton.class.getName());
          frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
          final MultiIconAction myAction = new MultiIconAction("action", icons[0], icons[1], icons[2], icons[3]);
          JPanel mainPanel = new JPanel(new BorderLayout());
          JToolBar toolBar = new MultiIconEnabledToolBar();
          toolBar.add(myAction);
          toolBar.add(new AbstractAction("simple icon action", icons[0]) {
               public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                    myAction.setEnabled(!myAction.isEnabled());
          mainPanel.add(toolBar, BorderLayout.NORTH);
          JPanel centerPanel = new JPanel(new FlowLayout());
          JButton button = new MultiIconButton(myAction);
          centerPanel.add(button);
          mainPanel.add(centerPanel, BorderLayout.CENTER);
          frame.setContentPane(mainPanel);
          JMenuBar menuBar = new JMenuBar();
          JMenu menu = new JMenu("file");
          menu.add(myAction);
          menuBar.add(menu);
          frame.setJMenuBar(menuBar);
          SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
               public void run() {
                    frame.pack();
                    frame.show();
}I really think that changing the displayed icon depending on which Container the action is added to should be much simplier (at least without having to extend those containers).