How to disable a container and its children in Swing

Question

I cannot figure out a way to disable a container AND its children in Swing. Is Swing really missing this basic feature?

If I do setEnabled(false) on a container, its

Answer 1

JXLayer might be what you're looking for, according to this post:

Wrap your container with the JXLayer and call JXLayer.setLocked(true) after that - all components inside will be disabled

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