Changing the Color of a Frame

We will fill in the actionPerformed() body so that clicking the button changes the color of the frame. To change the color of the content pane of a frame, use the method setBackground( Color c ) . You can use one of the pre-defined colors like this:

getContentPane().setBackground( Color.red )

Other pre-defined colors are Color.green, Color.blue, Color.yellow, and so on. Here is the interesting part of our program:

public class ButtonDemo2 extends JFrame implements ActionListener
{
  JButton bChange; 

  public ButtonDemo2()                            
  {
    getContentPane().setLayout( new FlowLayout() );  
    bChange = new JButton("Click Me!"); 
    bChange.addActionListener( this );  
    getContentPane().add( bChange ) 
  }
   
  public void actionPerformed( ActionEvent evt)
  {
    getContentPane()._________________________
    repaint();  // ask the system to paint the screen.
  }

  public static void main ( String[] args )
  {
      . . . . .
  }
}

The repaint() will be explained in the next page.