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Change Color Inside JTextBox

cb = new JCheckBox("Hello");
chinButton.setBackground(Color.pink);

The above changes the color surrounding the checkbox and its label but the background of the little box stays white. I would like to make the background of the little box a different color (not the same as the background. Can I do that?

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CEHJ

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Wow, for a minute I thought that was it! I tried it and it seems to do the same thing as setBackground. I also tried Checkbox.interiorBackground but that isn't doing anything at all.

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Mick Barry

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> I tried it and it seems to do the same thing as setBackground.

it does :)

Mick Barry

using setOpaque() can sometimes help.

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OK, I tried setOpaque and it didn't seem to make a difference. I'm getting ready to try a different look and feel - maybe that will help? Is it really this hard to set the color of the inside of a checkbox?

Mick Barry

which one are u using? try metal.

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ASKER

I added this code but it didn;t help

try {
UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getCrossPlatformLookAndFeelClassName());
}
catch(Exception e) {}

I wonder why

UIManager.put("CheckBox.interiorBackground", Color.pink);

doesn't work. It comes up on google a lot

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I just tried all the plaf's I could find - no luck :*<

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I just realized that some of my looks and feels were not getting set properly. I was swallowing the exception so I'm trying again. After more research I think that the "CheckBox.interiorBackground" might be specific to the windows look and feel.

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I found several examples on google that implemented a custom CheckBoxIcon class. I finally tried that and it worked. Thanks all for the help. I appreciate it!

CEHJ

:-)