Making buttons change colour when clicked on, sounds simple......

Question

hello could somebody please give me the code to make a jbutton change colour when it is clicked on, muuuuuuuuuch appreciated, thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

w e l l - k e w l !
I made a few adjustments here. Mainly for myself:- you know when you JUST CANNOT FIND THAT DARN COLOUR !!! - 'Pandavas' sexy little program is right on the button!
Click on the button and it cycles through colours randomly and tells you the RGB value ...import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
public class ColorChanges extends JFrame implements ActionListener {  
  int red = 0;
  int blue = 0;
  int green = 0;
  java.util.Random rand = new java.util.Random();
  JButton button = new JButton("Colour Me!");
  JLabel label1 = new JLabel("                  The new colours are:                ");
  JLabel label2 = new JLabel("");
  public ColorChanges() {
    super("RGB VALUES:");
    setSize(200,108);
    setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);  
    button.addActionListener(this);
    getContentPane().setLayout(new FlowLayout() );
    getContentPane().add(button);
    getContentPane().add(label1);
    getContentPane().add(label2);
    setVisible(true);  
  public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent eve) {    
        red = (Math.abs((rand.nextInt())%255));
        blue = (Math.abs((rand.nextInt())%255));
        green = (Math.abs((rand.nextInt())%255));
        cooller();
  public void cooller() {   
      button.setBackground(new Color(red,green,blue));
      label2.setText("RED: "+red+" GREEN: "+green+" BLUE: "+blue);      
  public static void main(String[] args) {
      new ColorChanges();  
}