nimbus

does anyone know how to change the colors for JProgressBar when you use Nimbus LookAndFeel? I have overridden the whole nimbusOrange -Default Value, which change all ProgressBar-Colors and any other nimbusOrange . (InternalFrame - minimize Button) here with nimbusBase (blue) UIDefaults defaults = UIManager.getLookAndFeelDefaults(); defaults.put("nimbusOrange",defaults.get("nimbusBase")); Better is to write a own Painter and set this to the UIManager via UIManager.put("ProgressBar[Enabled].backgroundPainter", myPainter); If You want to change the Color for only a single ProgressBar instance,

i’m trying to override the “nimbusBase” color for specific instance of JButton/JTabbedPane with no luck. only the specific attributes of the component e.g. “Button.background”, are working. any idea? UIDefaults dialogTheme = new UIDefaults(); // dialogTheme.put(“nimbusBase”, Color.orange); // dialogTheme.put("nimbusBlueGrey", Color.blue); dialogTheme.put("Button.background", Color.yellow); JButton dialogButton = new JButton("North"); dialogButton.putClientProperty("Nimbus.Overrides.InheritDefaults", true); dialogButton.putClientProperty("Nimbus.Overrides", dialogTheme); You can put the Color

Can anyone explain why Nimbius treats the setOpaque() differently than other java LaF's. Its breaking my code because components that are normally transparent no longer are. EDIT: The problem seems to only deal with JTextAreas (which is what I need) or similar components. EDIT EDIT: This is a screen of the actual application. When applying trashgod's solution, the background still does not show through. EDIT EDIT EDIT: I tried trashgod's suggestion to override the paint(). I toiled with this for hours, and could not get it to work. I was able to get the background to show through, but the