JSlider Enabled Coloring

Question

I have a JSlider and I am trying to write an extended UI which does not make the slider labels turn Gray when I call slider.setEnabled(false); (Note that when a JSlider is disabled, the labels and tick marks turn gray)
In particular, I want the JSlider labels to stay BLACK regardless of if the slider is enabled or not. I overrode the BasicSliderUI class and added this method:
protected void paintHorizontalLabel(Graphics g,int value,Component label)
      JLabel lbl = (JLabel)label;
      lbl.setForeground(Color.BLACK);
      super.paintHorizontalLabel(g,value,lbl);
    }However if my JSlider is not enabled, the labels turn gray no matter what. If the slider is enabled, this technique works and the labels become black.
Can anyone give me an idea how to make a JSlider whereby the color does not change regardless of if the slider is enabled or disabled.

Answer 1

see example:
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.MouseListener;
import javax.swing.*;
public class EnableTest extends JSlider {
    private boolean enabled = true;
    private MouseListener[] ml;
    public void createGui() {
        JCheckBox enableCB = new JCheckBox("enabled");
        enableCB.setSelected(true);
        enableCB.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                getSlider().setEnabled(((JCheckBox) e.getSource()).isSelected());
        JPanel pane = new JPanel(new BorderLayout());
        pane.add(this, BorderLayout.CENTER);
        pane.add(enableCB, BorderLayout.NORTH);
        JFrame frame = new JFrame("Example");
        frame.add(pane);
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        frame.pack();
        frame.setVisible(true);
    @Override
    public void setEnabled(boolean enabled) {
        this.enabled = enabled;
        if (enabled) {
            for (int i = 0; i < this.ml.length; i++) {
                this.addMouseListener(ml);
} else {
ml = this.getMouseListeners();
for (int i = 0; i < this.getMouseListeners().length; i++) {
this.removeMouseListener(ml[i]);
@Override
public boolean isEnabled() {
return enabled;
public JSlider getSlider() {
return this;
public static void main(String[] args) {
new EnableTest().createGui();