Focus rectangle around jCheckBox

Question

Hi all,
I have a JCheckBox with no label text with it. Usually when the JCheckBox has focus, theres a dotted focus rectangle around the label text, so in this case there never is.
Since theres a few checkboxes in the same panel, it gets very confusing as you can't see what component is in focus. Is there any way about this? I was trying to create my own checkbox with a dotted border when the component gets focus, but theres no dotted border in swing.
So my question is this:
1) Is there any way to change the focus rectangle to go about the whole component and not just the text label?
or
2) Is there any dotted border in swing that I've missed?
thanks,
Justin

Answer 1

what about having blank spaces as the text (the # of spaces determines the rectangle width)
something like this
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
class Testing extends JFrame
  JCheckBox cbx1 = new JCheckBox("      ");
  JCheckBox cbx2 = new JCheckBox("      ");
  public Testing()
    setLocation(400,300);
    setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    JPanel p = new JPanel();
    p.add(cbx1);
    p.add(cbx2);
    getContentPane().add(p);
    pack();
  public static void main(String[] args){new Testing().setVisible(true);}
}