Background Color
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We can set the background color, too, by calling the setBackground method:

package swingExamples;

import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Container;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.Font;
import java.awt.FontMetrics;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Insets;

import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;

class BackgroundColorDisplayPanel extends JPanel
{
  public BackgroundColorDisplayPanel()
  {
    setBackground(Color.yellow);
  }
}

class BackgroundColorDisplayFrame extends JFrame
{
  public BackgroundColorDisplayFrame()
  {
    setTitle("Background Color Display");
    setSize(300, 200);
    setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    Container contentPane = getContentPane();
    contentPane.add(new BackgroundColorDisplayPanel());
  }
}

public class BackgroundColorDisplay
{
  public static void main(String[] args)
  {
    BackgroundColorDisplayFrame frame =
        new BackgroundColorDisplayFrame();
    frame.setVisible(true);
  }
}

Which produces:

Note that, in the above program, we set the background color for the BackgroundColorDisplayPanel class, not for the BackgroundColorDisplayFrame class.

Why?

 

This page was last modified on 02 October, 2007