Semi-transparent JTextField?

From: Allysia (alt_at_fakety.fake)
Date: 01/21/05 

Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 21:45:15 GMT

Is there any easy way to make a JTextField semi-transparent (maybe 50%
alpha)?

I tried setting the background color to "new Color(255,255,255,70)", but
the JTextField's background pickedup all sorts of weird things, and became
less transparent with each keystroke.

Do I have to create an extension of JTextField and overload the paint()
function?

-Ally

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