How to get mouseover/pop-up effect on button?

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How to get the mouseover effects on JButton which should be similar to the effect which we will get on mouseover of tags in Stackoveflow? E.G.

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This should give you plenty of answers: http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=[java]+mouseover — assylias, Apr 16 '12 at 06:05

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:16

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See JComponent.setToolTipText(String). The tool-tip supports HTML to some extent, but not to the extent of providing the functionality of the links at the bottom of the SO tag pop-ups.

To do that, you'd need to swap the tool-tip for a JWindow/JEditorPane where you'd need to 'wire it together' yourself. Here is an example that uses a JWindow (to display BufferedImage instances).

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answered Apr 16 '12 at 10:06

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score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 16 '12 at 06:13

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You can use setRolloverIcon. Here is an example.

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 16 '12 at 06:35

Icon normalIcon = new ImageIcon("normal-icon.png"); // Icon for normal situations
JButton button = new JButton(); // initialize the button
button.setIcon(normalIcon); // set the normal situation icon

Icon rollOverIcon = new ImageIcon("roll-over.png"); // Icon for roll over (hovering effect)
button.setRolloverIcon(rollOverIcon); // Set the icon attaching with the roll-over event

How to get mouseover/pop-up effect on button?

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