Can I change the back/foreground color of a disabled JComboBox?

[Jose Roel]

Hi!

I need change the background and foreground color when a JComboBox is disabled, is it possible?

Thanks in advance.

[Dragan Stankovic]

Yes you can, try:

  
UIManager.put("ComboBox.disabledBackground", Color.yellow);
UIManager.put("ComboBox.disabledForeground", Color.green);  

For a complete list of properties you can change in this way try:

http://safari.oreilly.com/0596004087/jswing2-APP-A
[ November 05, 2008: Message edited by: Dragan Stankovic ]

[Jose Roel]

Yes, but this has a problem. I only want to change some JComboBox (my JComboBoxCustom) of the aplication, not all.

Thanks for your time.

[Akhshay Ray]

Then use a renderer

[Michael Dunn]

make the comboBox editable
get the editor component (textfield)
use textfield's setDisabledTextColor (inherited from JTextComponent)

[Jose Roel]

I have tried

cbox.setEditable(true);
BasicComboBoxEditor editor = (BasicComboBoxEditor)cbox.getEditor();
cbox.setEnabled(false);
editor.getEditorComponent().setBackground(Color.green); editor.getEditorComponent().setForeground(Color.yellow);

but doesn't work...