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Re: L&F primary colors

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From: Zippy
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 00:00
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UIManager.put("ScrollBar.thumb",Color.red);
tested, works

Try using JScroll components - A lot of JBuilder components
have the there own L&F


>On Tue, 9 Nov 1999 15:52:49 +0200, Ronen wrote:
>
>> I'm using MetalLookAndFeel
>> Does anyone knows how can I change the primary colors
>> (ScrollBars, Selected items background, splitters, etc..)
>
>I think you can do this using the UIDefaults class.  I have not tried it, 
>but I think it goes something like this:
>
>	UIDefaults defaults = UIManager.getDefaults();
>	defaults.put( "ScrollBar.shadow", Color.blue );
>
>As far as I can tell, the names of the properties used by the various 
>Swing look-and-feel classes is not documented, but they are easy to find 
>by looking at the source code.  For example, MetalScrollBarUI uses the 
>following properties for its colors:
>
>	ScrollBar.shadow
>	ScrollBar.highlight
>	ScrollBar.darkShadow
>	ScrollBar.thumb
>	ScrollBar.thumbShadow
>	ScrollBar.thumbHighlight
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