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ComboBox for Windows L&F seems to refuse changing its background and
foreground. When the background and foreground are set to a new color,
the new color only ficker in the combo box area when the user select a
new item but immediately replaced by the old color (dark blue and
white). But the Metal L&F ComboBox works as expected (new color stays).
Is there a way around this. I just want the Metal Feel but the Windows
Look. I am using swing JDK 1.2.2 but i have also tried with JDK 1.3.
Here are the code that show this:

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import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.event.WindowAdapter;
import java.awt.event.WindowEvent;

import com.sun.java.swing.plaf.*;
import com.sun.java.swing.*;

public class ComboTest extends WindowAdapter {

public static void main(String[] args) {

// true for Windows L&F - background always dark blue and foreground
// always white even after explicitly setting background to
// diferrent color.
// false for Metal L&F - this seems to work as expected, back and
// foreground always the same set color.
if(true) {
try {
UIManager.setLookAndFeel( new
com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows.WindowsLookAndFeel());
} catch(UnsupportedLookAndFeelException e) { }
}

JFrame frame = new JFrame();
frame.addWindowListener(new ComboTest());
frame.setSize(100, 50);

String[] stuffs = { "Hello", "World", "How", "are", "you", "today" };

JComboBox combo = new JComboBox(stuffs);

// Change background and foreground to be green and red. This won't work

// if in Windows L&F.
combo.setBackground(Color.green);
combo.setForeground(Color.red);

frame.getContentPane().add(combo);

frame.setVisible(true);
}

public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e) {
System.exit(0);
}

}