I think that your problem is in the location of the image. You shall place it in your source, and then use it like this: JButton button = new JButton(); try { Image img = ImageIO.read(getClass().getResource(“resources/water.bmp”)); button.setIcon(new ImageIcon(img)); } catch (Exception ex) { System.out.println(ex); } In this example, it is assumed that image is in … Read more
If you want to have space between components, you can either add an empty border to one or both components, or insert invisible components to provide the space. You can create invisible components with the help of the Box class. since you already used glue with no success (I doubt why?), you may try something … Read more
Remove the border like so: button.setBorder(BorderFactory.createEmptyBorder()); and then also the contents1: button.setContentAreaFilled(false); 1: Taken from the solution added to the question by @3sdmx
When I was first learning Java we had to make Yahtzee and I thought it would be cool to create custom Swing components and containers instead of just drawing everything on one JPanel. The benefit of extending Swing components, of course, is to have the ability to add support for keyboard shortcuts and other accessibility … Read more