Colorize a tab in a JTabbedPane using java swing

Question

I am trying to change the background color of my tabs in a JTabbedPane. I tried JTabbedPane.setBackgroudAt(0, Color.GRAY) and JTabbedPane.set

Answer 1

• most of method for JTabbedPane is protected in the API, and not accesible from Swing methods

• have to look for Custom XxxTabbedPaneUI, override these methods, and could be accesible from outside

• correct way would be to implement Custom Look & Feel only, part of them override JTabbedPane

• example for Custom XxxTabbedPaneUI