Gradient background

[John M]

Hello,

I want to make a label as a header to my tree panel. How is it possible to
make a gradient background color to this label ?

Thanks!

 

[VisionSet]

Hello,

I want to make a label as a header to my tree panel. How is it possible to
make a gradient background color to this label ?

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/2d/display/strokeandfill.html

 

[Chris Smith]

Hello,

I want to make a label as a header to my tree panel. How is it possible to
make a gradient background color to this label ?

Google recommends the following, which looks promising:

http://www.vaegar.f9.co.uk/examples/Java2D_demo/java2d/demos/Paint/Gradient.java.html

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[Karsten Lentzsch]

[...] How is it possible to make a gradient background
color to this label ?

I suggest to use a panel that paints a gradient background
and then add a label to it. You can then later add an optional
toolbar, icon, border, etc.

This is easy if you use a single l&f with a fixed set
of colors. Honoring a set of l&fs and multiple color themes
is a little bit harder.

I'm about to open source the Skeleton application that
will ship with a class SimpleInternalFrame that provides
an eclipse-like structuring panel. You can see it here:
http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/looks/index.html

The three different screenshots demonstrate the problem
mentioned above. I've put some effort in honoring the
desktop colors to not alienate users with a custom gradient.

The Skeleton app and SimpleInternalFrame will be published
at JavaDesktop.org in the JGoodies subproject "demos".
This subproject is not yet visible to the general public.
I plan to release it to the general public later this year.

Hope this helps,
Karsten Lentzsch

 

[Chris Smith]

I want to make a label as a header to my tree panel. How is it possible to
make a gradient background color to this label ?

I don't see a canned way to set a label's background to a gradient. You
probably need to subclass JLabel and override its paintComponent method.
Gradients are relatively easy to do with java.awt.GradientPaint and
java.awt.Graphics2D.

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