Setting the colors of a JProgressBar text

Question

I have these progress bars:

I\'m trying to set the color o

Answer 1

Ah ha - looks like I can modify the UI:

    setUI(new BasicProgressBarUI() {
      protected Color getSelectionBackground() { return Color.black; }
      protected Color getSelectionForeground() { return Color.white; }
    });

This was a bit confusing, since the use of Foreground and Background weren't intuitive. Background is the color of the text when the bar isn't covering it, foreground is the color of the text when it is.

Here's the end result: