Button Color

Hi !
My program endlessly scans a jTable of 150 row indexes in lenth.
This jTable directly relates to 150 jButtons ... that depending on the status of thier function at any given time ... each change in color to reflect thier status. The buttons change in color 6 times ie; RED, GREEN, YELLOW,BLUE, GRAY or BLACK.
Currently I change the button color in this way :
import java.awt.Color;
//import .*;
* @author Rick
public class ButtonColorYellow {
    /** Creates a new instance of ButtonColorYellow */
    public ButtonColorYellow() {
        String F0 = AddRFSwitchMain.jButton500.getText(); // Source of the Room Numbers that equate to the jButtons
          if (F0.equals("101")){
            AddRFSwitchMain.jButton101.setBackground(new Color(255,255,0)); // Yellow Color
        } if (F0.equals("102")){
            AddRFSwitchMain.jButton102.setBackground(new Color(255,255,0)); // Yellow Color
        } if (F0.equals("103")){
            AddRFSwitchMain.jButton103.setBackground(new Color(255,255,0)); // Yellow Color
        } if (F0.equals("104")){
            AddRFSwitchMain.jButton104.setBackground(new Color(255,255,0)); // Yellow Color
        } if (F0.equals("105")){
            AddRFSwitchMain.jButton105.setBackground(new Color(255,255,0)); // Yellow Color
        } if (F0.equals("106")){
            AddRFSwitchMain.jButton106.setBackground(new Color(255,255,0)); // Yellow Color
        } if (F0.equals("107")){
            AddRFSwitchMain.jButton107.setBackground(new Color(255,255,0)); // Yellow Color
        } if (F0.equals("108")){
            AddRFSwitchMain.jButton108.setBackground(new Color(255,255,0)); // Yellow Color
        } if (F0.equals("109")){
            AddRFSwitchMain.jButton109.setBackground(new Color(255,255,0)); // Yellow Color
        } if (F0.equals("110")){
            AddRFSwitchMain.jButton110.setBackground(new Color(255,255,0)); // Yellow Color
        } if (F0.equals("111")){
            AddRFSwitchMain.jButton111.setBackground(new Color(255,255,0)); // Yellow Color
        } if (F0.equals("112")){
            AddRFSwitchMain.jButton112.setBackground(new Color(255,255,0)); // Yellow Color
        } if (F0.equals("113")){
            AddRFSwitchMain.jButton113.setBackground(new Color(255,255,0)); // Yellow Color
        } if (F0.equals("114")){
            AddRFSwitchMain.jButton114.setBackground(new Color(255,255,0)); // Yellow Color
        } if (F0.equals("115")){
            AddRFSwitchMain.jButton115.setBackground(new Color(255,255,0)); // Yellow Color
        } if (F0.equals("116")){
            AddRFSwitchMain.jButton116.setBackground(new Color(255,255,0)); // Yellow Color
        } if (F0.equals("117")){
            AddRFSwitchMain.jButton117.setBackground(new Color(255,255,0)); // Yellow Color
        } if (F0.equals("118")){
            AddRFSwitchMain.jButton118.setBackground(new Color(255,255,0)); // Yellow Color
        } if (F0.equals("119")){
            AddRFSwitchMain.jButton119.setBackground(new Color(255,255,0)); // Yellow Color
        } if (F0.equals("120")){
            AddRFSwitchMain.jButton120.setBackground(new Color(255,255,0)); // Yellow Color
        } if (F0.equals("121")){
            AddRFSwitchMain.jButton121.setBackground(new Color(255,255,0)); // Yellow Color
        } if (F0.equals("122")){
            AddRFSwitchMain.jButton122.setBackground(new Color(255,255,0)); // Yellow Color
        } if (F0.equals("123")){
            AddRFSwitchMain.jButton123.setBackground(new Color(255,255,0)); // Yellow Color
        } if (F0.equals("124")){
            AddRFSwitchMain.jButton124.setBackground(new Color(255,255,0)); // Yellow Color
        } if (F0.equals("125")){
.................. etc, etc, etc   ( room numbers are used for index references ie: 101,102, 103, etc)This code works well , but would think there must be a better wat to code it.
I will make the color itself a var like this:
AddRFSwitchMain.jButton124.setBackground(new Color( a , b , c ));...... but is there any way to adress the JButtons themselves in a var way??
ie:
AddRFSwitchMain.jButton( var X ).setBackground(new Color( a , b , c ));I know ya cant change the jButton lable itself ... but any way to reference the buttons in a like fashion ??
THANKS !!

You currently are creating 150 separate buttons each
independent and unrelated to each other. I would
reccomend creating an two arrays, one of buttons, and
another of button status which you can then loop
thorugh and change with logic
Something like this:
Button[] myButtonArray
int[] myButtonStatus
init() {
Button[] myButtonArray = new Button[150];
int myButtonStatus = new int[150];
for (int i = 0; i < 150 ; i++)
myButtonArray[i] = new Button("Button #" +
n #" + (i + 1) );
myButonStatus[i] = ** Get Status from
tus from jTable
then in Main Code soemthing like
for (int i=0 ; i < 150 ; i++)
if (myButtonStatus = 101) then
) then
{myButtonArray.setBackGround(Color.Yellow);
if (myButtonStatus = xyz ) then
{myButtonArray[i].setBackGrondr(Color.Black);
Hope this helps
JavaPython ....
Does not your code snip make for 150 lines of code entry listed below? : (
if (myButtonStatus = 101) then
) then
{myButtonArray.setBackGround(Color.Yellow);
if (myButtonStatus = 101) then
) then
{myButtonArray.setBackGround(Color.Yellow);

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Source: color.rgb = 0x00ff00;

TS2610 Can png menu overlays glitch in chroma button colors?

I created a png overlay with blue dots for buttons. I created my buttons around the dots only. Next to the dots are text. When I chroma out the blue and change its activation color, all of the text begins to highlights in that same color. It looks hideous. Is there an explainationfor this? I've never had this happen to me before. It's not chroma keying the button boundaries, it's chroma keying the entire layer.

Text highlights in DSP will never win the award for outstanding aestetics. It can be done but I personally avoid them. Stay away from red highlights and san serif fonts.
The overlay layer can have up to three color highlights than can be assigned any RGB value.
The colors are black, red, & blue.
If you are trying to have the shape highlight appear with a highlight color and the text appear at the same time unfettered by color I would not include it in the overlay layer. Overlay should only be used to tell the program what you want to highlight. If DSP sees black it makes it color a, red? make it color b, blue? make it this color c.
You could make the shape black & the text red. Assign different HL colors and then when the button is selected the they would appear with different highlights.
A layered psd could solve this but I find that they slow down menus so much that they aren't even worth considering. If including the text on the background(all the time) isn't a option than you could make duplicate menus with button auto jumps to give the user the illusion of the text coming on with the button highlight. But in reality the text isn't part of the highlight it just appears on the second menu. Since the menu is a duplicate only the text and the highlight change.

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