JButton: Using Strings and Icons

Question

I am trying to make a JButton so that when it is ...
1. enabled, an Icon appears without any text
2. selected, a String appears without any Icon
3. disabled, a Icon appears without any text
My Code is as follows...
equation[i] = new JButton(mathSigns);
equation.setDisabledIcon(winImage);
equation[i].setDisabledSelectedIcon(winImage);
equation[5].setSelected(true);
     if(equation[5].isSelected() == true)
                    equation[5].setText("TEXT");
Everything works except that When the button is selected, the Icon and the Text shows up instead of just the text showing up. I want the Icon to dissappear and only the text to show up. How can i do this? Thanks!

Answer 1

Here is a piece of code that might help. I had to use JToogleButtons because I don't really know what a selected regular JButton is.import javax.swing.*;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
* User: weebib
* Date: 12 janv. 2005
* Time: 03:06:30
public class MultiStateButton extends JToggleButton {
     private static ImageIcon ICON_ENABLED = null;
     private static ImageIcon ICON_DISABLED = null;
     static {
          try {
               ICON_ENABLED = new ImageIcon(new URL("http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/components/example-1dot4/images/tumble/T1.gif"));
               ICON_DISABLED = new ImageIcon(new URL("http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/components/example-1dot4/images/tumble/T2.gif"));
          } catch (IOException e) {
               e.printStackTrace();
     public MultiStateButton() {
          super(ICON_ENABLED);
          setModel(new ToggleButtonModel() {
               public void setSelected(boolean b) {
                    super.setSelected(b);
                    if (b) {
                         setText("tutu");
                         setIcon(null);
                    } else {
                         setIcon(ICON_ENABLED);
                         setText(null);
          setDisabledIcon(ICON_DISABLED);
     public static void main(String[] args) {
          final JFrame frame = new JFrame(MultiStateButton.class.getName());
          frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
          JPanel panel = new JPanel(new GridLayout(1, 2));
          final JToggleButton firstButton = new MultiStateButton();
          final JToggleButton secondButton = new MultiStateButton();
          firstButton.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
               public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                    secondButton.setEnabled(!secondButton.isEnabled());
          secondButton.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
               public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                    firstButton.setEnabled(!firstButton.isEnabled());
          panel.add(firstButton);
          panel.add(secondButton);
          frame.setContentPane(panel);
          SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
               public void run() {
                    frame.pack();
                    frame.show();
}