swing: creating thin button borders that look the same as the look&feel default

Question

I have an icon button that I want to use with a border. The default border looks too thick.

What's the easiest way to create a border with the same colors as the current look + feel?

Button myButton = createMyIconButton();

...

public Button createMyIconButton()
{
   ...
   setBorder(BorderFactory.createLineBorder(???, 1));
}

what happens if 1) some L&F on some Native OS doesn't returns any Border, nor LineBorder 2) your idea will be L&F and Native OS sensitive, 3) you didn't wrote I want to extract Border from Nimbus or Metal L&F on Window OS, 4) probably you needed to overide http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/swing/plaf/basic/BasicButtonUI.html, but for all possible L&F and Platform, 5) easiest way for MetalButtonUI and Windows OS http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5751311/creating-custom-button-in-java/5755124#5755124, notice, not completed, some painting_effect came from UI and ButtonModel — mKorbel, Oct 14 '11 at 21:42

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 15 '11 at 04:18

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The default border looks too thick.

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