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Re: How to colour a JComboBox

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From: Steve Horsley
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 00:00
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That looks promising. I'll give it a try.
Thanks.

Steve
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Tor Iver Wilhelmsen wrote:
> 
> Steve Horsley <steve.horsley@cwcom.co.uk> writes:
> 
> > Does anyone know how to make the drop-down part coloured as well?
> 
> You probably will have better success setting the UIDefaults
> properties using UIManager: However, finding out what the property
> keys are is another matter... :-) You can look through the sources of
> javax/swing/plaf/basic to see which properties are looked for.
> 
> (Basically, it seems you just put "ComboBox." in front of
> e.g. "background", "foreground", "selectionX" and "disabledX", where X
> is Foreground or Background.)
> 
> So to get your desired look, this may work:
> 
> UIManager.put("ComboBox.foreground", Color.white);
> UIManager.put("ComboBox.background", Color.blue);
> // Various other settings for the other L&F properties
> 
> depending on where you put it.
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