Setting the colors of a JProgressBar text

swing jprogressbar

zigdon · Aug 13, 2010 · Viewed 14.5k times · Source

I have these progress bars:

Sample Bars

I'm trying to set the color of the TEXT of the progress bars, without changing the background color or the color of the progress bar itself. As far as I can tell, setForeground() sets both the text and the bar color? Is there a way to do one without the other?

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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:

Colors adjusted

Setting the colors of a JProgressBar text

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