How Can I Colorize Text?

[Lazaros Lazarou]

I was wondering if anybody knows how can i colorise text.
for example;
class Aclass{
private Label alabel;
public Aclass(){
alabel=new Label();]
alabel.setText("HELLO WORLD");
}
}
Is there any way to make the text "HELLO WORLD" colored
before i display it on the label?
thanks in advance.
Lazaros

[Joseph Russell]

For a label you use alabel.setForeground( Color.red );
You can use black, blue, cyan, red, green, gray, darkgray, lightgray, magenta, orange, pink, white or yellow.
Joe

[ryan burgdorfer]

You can use the setForeground() and setBackground() methods on pretty much all of the atomic AWT and Swing components.

[Terry McKee]

One thing to keep in mind when using the .setBackground(Color) method on Swing components is that by default Swing components are not opaque. This means that they are by default transparent. So if you want to use the setBackground method on Swing a component, you must also make the component non-transparent by using the .setOpaque(true) method. Otherwise your color won't show up.

[Nathan Pruett]

You can also define more colors than already defined (black, blue, cyan, darkGray, gray, green, lightGray, magenta, orange, pink, red, white, & yellow) by using RGB (or RGBA) values to construct new colors, like this :

Color newColor = new Color( 115, 56, 213 );

The int values sent to the constructor must be in the range 0 - 255. There is also another constructor that takes float values in the range of 0.0 - 1.0 (to specify percentage of R, G, and B in the color).
HTH,
-Nate