Change Button selection color

Hay Guys,
Is there a way to change a button's background color using UIManager when it is presses or selected ?
Thanks a lot,

hi,
UIManager.put("Button.foreground", new ColorUIResource(new Color(26,67,92)));.
thanks
daya

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try this
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El 15/05/2009, a las 5:26, kRizzl0r <[email protected]> escribió:
>
hi there,
>
i was wondering why the TextField's selection color in AIR is
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>
cheers
>

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