Setting the background color of the selection when text selected (input TextField)

Question

My input TextField has a black background. The problem is,
when some text is enter and then selected, the selection background
color remains black and the selected text remains white. Because of
this it's imposible to tell that the text has been selected. Is
there a way to change the selection background color, or do I
really have to write a custom textfield? :(

Answer 1

Yes, I do have an additional attribute called "identity" which is set to the original table where it came from. The problem is that I do not know how to check for it in my renderer. I will post my renderer code here
public class myTableRenderer extends DefaultTableCellRenderer{
public Component getTableCellRendererComponent( JTable table,Object value,boolean isSelected,boolean hasFocus,int row,int column) {
final Component component = super.getTableCellRendererComponent(table, value,isSelected,hasFocus, row, column);
if ( value != null ) {
if ( value instanceof String ) {
String val = value.toString();
if ( val.compareTo("DisplayKnown") == 0 ) {
component.setBackground(Color.CYAN);
else
component.setBackground(Color.LIGHT_GRAY);
} // end if value not null
return component;
} // end mytablerenderer
What happens here, is that only the column with the identity value "DisplayKnown" gets the color blue. I would like to color the whole row with that column value to be Blue.
Does this make sense??
Thanks,
npatel