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Article #8031Re: How to set the color of the selectecd tab of a jtabbedpane
From: John McGrath TeamB
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 07:32
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 07:32
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On 8 Nov 2000 07:44:15 -0800, Larry Maturo wrote:
> The JTabbedPane and JTabbePage have lots of color properties
> you can set, but apparently the color of the selectd tab is
> not one of them. How do you set this? In the default, the
> unselected tabs are dark grey and the selected tab is light
> grey. This looks good. I, however, want to change colors,
> and the light grey for the selected tab looks awful. I want
> to make the unselectd tabs light or dark grey and make the
> selecte tab the same color as the page color, which in my
> case is wheat.
It sounds like you have been looking at the Metal look-and-feel.
Note that the appearance you describe is not the same under other
look-and-feels.
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John McGrath [TeamB]
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