Java ButtonFactory

A tiny Java tool to create different types of button images for WWW pages, etc. It provides the following features:

• Adjust foreground and background color of button
• Adjust button transparency
• Specify text size, position, color and transparency
• Use every font supported by Java, partly with antialiasing
• Specify button borders: flat or engraved, risen or sunken borders of different height, thickness and transparency
• Button shadow, either flat or blurred with adjustable shift and transparency
• Supported output formats: png, jpg, bmp, xpm
• Save and load the button definition
• Inherit and override button definitions from other buttons
• Commandline interface for batch generation of buttons

Here are some screenshots and samples.

The tool needs at least Java 1.2 with Swing and Java2D. Download the tool here (ca 440kByte).