Re: Anybody know how to set the color of the text in a disabled JMenuItem?

From	"John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.gui
Subject	Re: Anybody know how to set the color of the text in a disabled JMenuItem?
Date	2011-08-20 21:17 -0400
Organization	The Wasteland
Message-ID	<nospam-B61DA7.21171520082011@news.aioe.org> (permalink)
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In article <j2p87c$khu$1@dont-email.me>,
 Knute Johnson <september@knutejohnson.com> wrote:

> Does that work when you run it on your linux box?  Because on my 
> windows xp it shows all of the menu items greyed out.  JMenuItem 
> doesn't keep the disabled foreground color in the its field.  The 
> colors are extracted from the UIManager when the component is 
> repainted so if you reset the value of MenuItem.disabledForeground 
> anywhere it will paint all of them with that color.

I see the result you describe on Ubuntu; my suggested workaround fails. 
Altering the UI delegate is effective, but you'll want to check the 
result on your target platforms: a dim red may show poor contrast on a 
L&F's default background.

-- 
John B. Matthews
trashgod at gmail dot com
<http://sites.google.com/site/drjohnbmatthews>

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Anybody know how to set the color of the text in a disabled JMenuItem? Knute Johnson <september@knutejohnson.com> - 2011-08-18 11:39 -0700
  Re: Anybody know how to set the color of the text in a disabled JMenuItem? markspace <-@.> - 2011-08-18 14:38 -0700
    Re: Anybody know how to set the color of the text in a disabled JMenuItem? Knute Johnson <september@knutejohnson.com> - 2011-08-18 16:06 -0700
      Re: Anybody know how to set the color of the text in a disabled JMenuItem? markspace <-@.> - 2011-08-18 18:52 -0700
        Re: Anybody know how to set the color of the text in a disabled JMenuItem? "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2011-08-19 07:01 -0400
          Re: Anybody know how to set the color of the text in a disabled JMenuItem? Knute Johnson <september@knutejohnson.com> - 2011-08-19 09:39 -0700
            Re: Anybody know how to set the color of the text in a disabled JMenuItem? markspace <-@.> - 2011-08-19 10:49 -0700
            Re: Anybody know how to set the color of the text in a disabled JMenuItem? "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2011-08-20 03:45 -0400
              Re: Anybody know how to set the color of the text in a disabled JMenuItem? Knute Johnson <september@knutejohnson.com> - 2011-08-20 14:16 -0700
                Re: Anybody know how to set the color of the text in a disabled JMenuItem? "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2011-08-20 21:17 -0400
              Re: Anybody know how to set the color of the text in a disabled JMenuItem? Knute Johnson <september@knutejohnson.com> - 2011-08-20 14:28 -0700
        Re: Anybody know how to set the color of the text in a disabled JMenuItem? Tom <tom400f@gmail.com> - 2011-08-19 17:16 +0000
          Re: Anybody know how to set the color of the text in a disabled JMenuItem? Knute Johnson <september@knutejohnson.com> - 2011-08-19 11:03 -0700

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