Background color of the selected item in an uneditable JComboBox

Question

The background color of the selected item in an uneditable JComboBox is a sort of blue:

Is

Answer 1

Have you tried writing your own, custom, ListCellRenderer?

When that method is asked to provide a cell-rendering component you get the following arguments:

 public Component getListCellRendererComponent(JList list,
                                               Object value,
                                               int index,
                                               boolean isSelected,
                                               boolean cellHasFocus) {