A gradient paint background for a JLabel

[Rupert Brown]

I'm using a JTree that simply holds Strings. As I understand it, these Strings are written inside JLabels - its basically a tree of JLabels. I have successfully changed the background colour of my JLabels but - to make the JLabels match the look and feel of other GUI components I have created, I need to be able to put a gradient onto the background of the JLabel. Any ideas as to how I can do that?

[Maneesh Godbole]

http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/swing2d/index.html
Scroll down to the section on gradient painting

[Rupert Brown]

Thanks Maneesh - that looks like a great reference. I'll read it further, but it looks like a simple matter of creating the gradient paint, and then just using setPaint on the JLabel. Cheers.