Re: Fade out Swing components

From:
Andre Rothe <arothe@phosco.info>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.gui
Date:
Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:31:11 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<aa7725b0-9bd0-43ab-aae1-e83329d150d3@d8g2000yqf.googlegroups.com>
This doesn't work for me. I have a JLabel component and it should
fade out to the background color of the underlying frame.

public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
  super.paintComponent(g);
  Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D) g;
  int xx = this.getWidth();
  int yy = this.getHeight();
  g2d.setComposite(AlphaComposite.getInstance(
                   AlphaComposite.DST_IN,
                   model.getAlpha()));
  g2d.setColor(getBackground());
  g2d.fillRect(0, 0, xx, yy);
}

It doesn't fade, it switches from a black rectangle to the label
content.
"model" stores the current alpha value, which is changed correctly
after 300 ms by 0.1f. After a model change, a repaint() is processed.

~Andre

On Jan 26, 8:02 pm, "John B. Matthews" <nos...@nospam.invalid> wrote:

In article
<f8a44aaf-3aa9-486d-9a45-e0c93cdda...@w17g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>,
 Andre Rothe <aro...@phosco.info> wrote:

Is it possible to fade out SWING components instead of
setVisible(false)?


Yes, there are several approaches. This example [1] varies the
background's saturation, while this one [2] changes the alpha of the
graphics context's composite.

[1]<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2124507>
[2]<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2234020>

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