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From: emf <emfril@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: JScrollpane calors
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2012 21:27:23 -0500
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On 2012-12-26 11:27 John B. Matthews wrote:
> In article <kbec5g$odp$1@speranza.aioe.org>, emf <emfril@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 2012-12-25 23:34 John B. Matthews wrote:
>>> In article <kbdofo$lr8$1@speranza.aioe.org>, emf <emfril@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
> [...]
>>> You can change the defaults, before instantiating any GUI objects,
>>> but the chosen Look and Feel is free to ignore some or all
>>> settings.
>>>
>>> UIManager.put("ScrollBar.foreground", ...);
>>> UIManager.put("ScrollBar.background", ...);
> [...]
>> Well, they were partially effective, I mean the second was effective,
>> the background did change to the color I specified, but the
>> foreground, that is the scroller itself, did not change from what it
>> was before.
>>
>> Why?
> [...]
>
> You'd have to examine the particular implementation to see how it uses
> the foreground color. I generally try to avoid distorting the L&F
> design. Of course, you can always override the relevant paint method(s)
> in a custom BasicScrollBarUI.

Sorry, I need more specific directions than this. But I googled the 
issue and find that this should be a solution:

public TextPaneRenderer() {
      setEditable(false);
      putClientProperty(HONOR_DISPLAY_PROPERTIES, Boolean.TRUE);
}

(https://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2269764)

But where do I put it?

emf

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