Changing color on the title bar

How can I during runtime change the color of the title bar? I want to flash the title bar to warn, but I haven't found the function to set the color of it yet...
Thanks in advance!
Regards,
Andreas

since 1.4 you can use
JFrame.setDefaultLookAndFeelDecorated( true );
JDialog.setDefaultLookAndFeelDecorated( true );to get jframes and jdialogs looking like jinternalframes. but i don't know if it is now possible to change the color.
tobias

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HI
How do you change the color of the title bar of a frame....also is it possible to paint an image on the tile bar so that its looks could be enhanced..pls help

Hi Arya,
There are 2 questions here, 1 is simple to answer the other is quite difficult.
How do you change the color of the title bar of a frameSimply add the colors you want to the UIManager
UIManager.put("Frame.activeTitleBackground", new ColorUIResource(YOURCOLOUR_BACKGROUND));
UIManager.put("Frame.activeTitleForeground", new ColorUIResource(YOURCOLOUR_FOREGROUND));
UIManager.put("Frame.inactiveTitleBackground", new ColorUIResource(YOURCOLOUR_INACTIVE_BACKGROUND));
UIManager.put("Frame.inactiveTitleForeground", new ColorUIResource(YOURCOLOUR_INACTIVE_FOREGROUND));
also is it possible to paint an image on the tile bar This is a bit more tricky. You will need to implement your own RootPaneUI which in turn uses a TitlePane class that represents the title bar. In your implementation of the title bar you will handle adding an image.
Have a look at MetalRootPaneUI and MetalTitlePane to get an idea about the implementation.
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I appologize for being rude, and thank you for your response.
The reason I did not respond was that I don't think that your answer solves the question of top level containers (specifically JFrame). I have been researching the net and some of the text books to come up with an answer before I respond. To this point, I believe that the answer has something to do with changing the boundary. If this is the case I'm within four or five hours of the solution, and will publish. If not, back to the drawing board.

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This code will show you the current UI settings.
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Ok, I have been looking for this answer for over a week now and nobody
has yet given me an answer that works. So I am going to ask again.
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