Swing: remove focus border from dialogues' buttons

Question

I wonder how can I remove this grey border from buttons in dialogues?

For simple JButtons I found a solution - just use button.setFocusPainted(false); But is there a simple way to perform the same for all buttons in all dialogues? I tried to look through UIManager properties, but it seems that there are no suitable parameters there.

Thanks in advance!

Buttery

"..how can I remove this dashed grey border from buttons in dialogues?" Why are you intent on making yet another unusable GUI? Those dashes are there to show focus. Leave them be. – Alain

@Andrew Thompson Well, you're right - removing focus border affects usability, but I can offer two arguments. 1) I use message dialogues with only one button in my application (first picture in my post was taken from Oracle's website), so I suppose focus border is useless in such case. 2) I find this border really inappropriate, may be it would be better to draw it only around whole button, not around button's text. – Buttery

Answer 1

• from JButtons API you can to use JButton.setFocusable() and with JButton.setBorderPainted(false);

• from UIManager have to override key (valid for whole JVM instance)

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UIDefaults defaults = UIManager.getLookAndFeelDefaults();
defaults.put("Button.focus", new ColorUIResource(new Color(0, 0, 0, 0)));

• I'd to suggest to change Color with transparency (4th paramater in a.m. code) to another more decent Color, otherwise you can't to see focus for any of `JButtons

Methuselah

Answer 2

What about

JButton.setFocusPainted(false)

Portiaportico

Simple and effective – Microtone

Answer 3

Here's a global fix so you don't have to do it manually for every control. From my other post: Disable JButton focus border

        // Removes the dotted border around controls which is not consistent with Windows
        UIManager.put("Button.focus", new ColorUIResource(new Color(0, 0, 0, 0)));
        UIManager.put("ToggleButton.focus", new ColorUIResource(new Color(0, 0, 0, 0)));

        // ways to remove it from other controls...
        UIManager.put("CheckBox.focus", new ColorUIResource(new Color(0, 0, 0, 0)));
        UIManager.put("TabbedPane.focus", new ColorUIResource(new Color(0, 0, 0, 0)));
        UIManager.put("RadioButton.focus", new ColorUIResource(new Color(0, 0, 0, 0)));
        UIManager.put("Slider.focus", new ColorUIResource(new Color(0, 0, 0, 0)));

        // figure out combobox
        UIManager.put("ComboBox.focus", new ColorUIResource(new Color(0, 0, 0, 0)));

Embassy