ListCellRenderer and JList... cannot set the selected background?

Question

The following code:
     public Component getListCellRendererComponent( JList list, Object value, int index, boolean isSelected, boolean cellHasFocus )
          setText( "test" );
          setBackground( isSelected ? list.getSelectionBackground() : list.getBackground() );
          setForeground( isSelected ? list.getSelectionForeground() : list.getForeground() );
          return this;
     }is having problems. It does not set the background color for the selected item. It does, however set the foreground. If I don't use my own cell renderer, the background changes as expected. I can't figure out why - I can set the border of the JLabel that is returned, the foreground, the icon, but not the background.
What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

I would have to check, but from memory a cell is a JLabel not a JTextField. The diff is that a JLabel is transparent so the background colour is normaly that of the JPanel. In a JTable I presume the cell has some default background colour based on the table, so maybe you need to use a JTextField to define the field.
Hope that helps,
James.