JCheckBox colours

From: Peter Greenwood (peterg_at_reel.demon.co.uk)
Date: 10/30/04 

Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 22:16:38 +0000 (UTC)

I'm trying to make my applet accept a parameter to set the background
colour (so it will blend into the web page colour scheme). For nearly
everything, this works fine. However, I can't seem to get access to the
border round the JCheckBox selected/deselected icon. (Not the border
round the whole JCheckBox component, the one round the check mark
itself). Whatever I do it stays persistently grey.

Apologies if I'm missing something obvious.

The following illustrates the problem; it shows a JLabel in default
colours, a Checkbox in turquoise (which is fine) and a JCheckBox in red
(which has a default grey outline).

public class chkbox_applet extends javax.swing.JApplet {
    public void init() {
        initComponents();
    }
    private void initComponents() {
        jLabel1 = new javax.swing.JLabel();
        jCheckBox1 = new javax.swing.JCheckBox();
        checkbox1 = new java.awt.Checkbox();

        jLabel1.setText("Checkbox Applet");
        getContentPane().add(jLabel1, java.awt.BorderLayout.NORTH);

        jCheckBox1.setBackground(new java.awt.Color(192, 0, 0));
        jCheckBox1.setText("Test JCheckBox");
        jCheckBox1.setBorderPainted(true);
        jCheckBox1.setBorderPaintedFlat(true);
        getContentPane().add(jCheckBox1, java.awt.BorderLayout.SOUTH);

        checkbox1.setBackground(new java.awt.Color(128, 192, 192));
        checkbox1.setLabel("Test Checkbox");
        getContentPane().add(checkbox1, java.awt.BorderLayout.CENTER);
    }
    private java.awt.Checkbox checkbox1;
    private javax.swing.JCheckBox jCheckBox1;
    private javax.swing.JLabel jLabel1;
} 

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