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Subject: Re: Anybody know how to set the color of the text in a disabled JMenuItem?
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:16:24 +0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 18:52:55 -0700, markspace wrote:

> On 8/18/2011 4:06 PM, Knute Johnson wrote:
> 
>> Thanks for that but apparently I asked the wrong question. Why can't I
>> change the foreground color on my JMenuItem like you can? I'm running
>> 1.7 on Windows XP. It may be something different with the LookAndFeel.
> 
> 
> I'm running Java 7 on Windows 7.  My LNF is just the default one (might
> be Synth).  I was running within NetBeans 7.0.1 IDE.  Can't say why it
> doesn't work for you.

BasicMenuItemUI has this:

protected void paintText(Graphics g, JMenuItem menuItem, Rectangle textRect, String text) {
  ButtonModel model = menuItem.getModel();                                      
  FontMetrics fm = SwingUtilities2.getFontMetrics(menuItem, g);                 
  int mnemIndex = menuItem.getDisplayedMnemonicIndex();                         

  if(!model.isEnabled()) {                                                      
    // *** paint the text disabled
    if ( UIManager.get("MenuItem.disabledForeground") instanceof Color ) { 
      g.setColor( UIManager.getColor("MenuItem.disabledForeground") );                                                                                          
      SwingUtilities2.drawStringUnderlineCharAt(menuItem, g,text,
                          mnemIndex, textRect.x,  textRect.y + fm.getAscent());                                                                                 
    } else {
  ...                     

so it doesn't appear to use the disabledForeground member anyway. Perhaps
that is your problem?

Of course, other L&F may do different things.