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Re: Attempting to set the color of a JTextField

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On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 07:15:11 -0700 (PDT), "John L."
<johnlarew@sbcglobal.net> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone
who said :

>I'm trying to change the color of a JTextField. There are many
>interesting discussions on much more detailed topics in other posts.

There is no need to override paintComponent just to change colours:

      final JFrame jFrame = new JFrame();
            final Container contentPane = jFrame.getContentPane();
            final JTextField textfield = new JTextField( "this is a
TEST" );
            textfield.setBackground( Color.BLACK );
            textfield.setForeground( Color.YELLOW );

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jtextfield.html

If fooling around with paintComponent just to experiment
see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/paintcomponent.html

The trick is setOpaque.
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Attempting to set the color of a JTextField "John L." <johnlarew@sbcglobal.net> - 2011-10-14 07:15 -0700
  Re: Attempting to set the color of a JTextField Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2011-10-14 07:21 -0700
    Re: Attempting to set the color of a JTextField "John L." <johnlarew@sbcglobal.net> - 2011-10-14 08:05 -0700
      Re: Attempting to set the color of a JTextField Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2011-10-14 10:42 -0700
        Re: Attempting to set the color of a JTextField "John L." <johnlarew@sbcglobal.net> - 2011-10-19 07:16 -0700
  Re: Attempting to set the color of a JTextField Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-10-14 09:44 -0700

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