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jacov - 26 Jul 2004 15:36 GMT

HI folks,
does anyone knows how to change a menuItem component.
e.g. i would like to have a menu with bacground = black and foreground
white....
Some suggestion? Thanks a lot
jacov

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Thomas Fritsch - 27 Jul 2004 16:10 GMT

> HI folks,
> does anyone knows how to change a menuItem component.
> e.g. i would like to have a menu with bacground = black and foreground
> white....
> Some suggestion? Thanks a lot
> jacov

Hi Jakov!
All the menu-related Swing classes (JMenu, JMenuItem, JMenuBar)
indirectly extend from JComponent and Component.
So you can simply call setBackground(Color.black) and
setForeground(Color.white) on them.

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jacov - 27 Jul 2004 16:08 GMT

Oh yes it's the first thing i tried. But it doesn't work...
I don't know why...
Anyway thanks a lot

>> HI folks,
>> does anyone knows how to change a menuItem component.
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> So you can simply call setBackground(Color.black) and
> setForeground(Color.white) on them.

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ak - 27 Jul 2004 16:21 GMT

> Oh yes it's the first thing i tried. But it doesn't work...
> I don't know why...

did you tried setOpaque(true)?

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jacov - 29 Jul 2004 15:44 GMT

The first suggestions was the right.
Now it works fine!!
Sorry

>>Oh yes it's the first thing i tried. But it doesn't work...
>>I don't know why...
>
> did you tried setOpaque(true)?

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