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Thread: Not setting colors in JMenu submenu like it should.

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    Default Not setting colors in JMenu submenu like it should.

    It seems to do this every single solitary time so I think I can make a shorter version of it that will show what's going on.


     
    import javax.swing.JMenuItem;
    import javax.swing.JMenu;
    import javax.swing.JMenuBar;
    import javax.swing.JPanel;
    import javax.swing.JFrame;
    import java.awt.Color;
     
    public class BustedMenuExample 
    {
     
    public BustedMenuExample()
    {
     
    JFrame theFrame = new JFrame("Why isn't this working properly? :(  ");
     
    JPanel contentPane = new JPanel();
     
    theFrame.setContentPane(contentPane);
     
    theFrame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
     
    theFrame.setVisible(true);
     
    JMenuBar jmb = new JMenuBar();
    jmb.setBackground(Color.BLUE);
     
    theFrame.setJMenuBar(jmb);
     
    JMenu menu = new JMenu("Menu");
    menu.setBackground(Color.BLUE);
    menu.setForeground(Color.GREEN);
     
    jmb.add(menu);
     
    JMenu subMenu = new JMenu("Sub-Menu");
     
    menu.add(subMenu);
     
    subMenu.setBackground(Color.BLUE);
    subMenu.setForeground(Color.GREEN);
     
    JMenuItem menuItem = new JMenuItem("Menu Item");
     
    subMenu.add(menuItem);
     
    menuItem.setBackground(Color.BLUE);
    menuItem.setForeground(Color.GREEN);
     
    JMenuItem menuItem2 = new JMenuItem("Menu Item 2");
     
    subMenu.add(menuItem2);
     
    menuItem2.setBackground(Color.BLUE);
     
    menuItem2.setForeground(Color.GREEN);
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    }
     
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
    new BustedMenuExample();
     
     
     
    }
     
    }

    I'm thinking that all the backgrounds and stuff will be fine except that subMenu will still have a cyan background and black foreground. Why is that happening?

    I think I figured it out. You use setOpaque(true); Yes, that worked. That was just a hunch though.

    What does opaque mean anyway? I thought it meant see-through or something.

    Another thing I was slightly wondering is how do you set the selectionColor? I mean, when it's selected, it appears to be a dark gray by default. How would you make it, say, a dark red instead or something?
    Last edited by javapenguin; June 21st, 2012 at 10:16 PM.


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    Default Re: Not setting colors in JMenu submenu like it should.

    Thanks. However, it appears it's a Model-T style thing, not that I have to choose black, but that I can't have one JMenu with a Red selection and another, in the same program, with a Green selection. At least that's what it appears from the UIManager.

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