Disable selection color in datagrid/list/tilelist?

I have a datagrid and would like to disable the selection
color. I disable the rollover color by using useRollOver to
false.

MXML
<mx:DataGrid id="dg"
selectionColor="dg.getStyle('backgroundColor')"/>
AS
dg.setStyle("selectionColor",
dg.getStyle("backgroundColor"));

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I am trying to implement the TreeCellRenderer interface. In doing that, I need to take care of the condition when a node is selected by the user, by changing the background and foreground colors of the node.
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However, no such method exists for JTrees.
Any ideas?
~Y

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I have two list boxs 'tracklist and racelist' in which we have setted a selection color. We uesd to refresh the datas in listbox every one minute. When the cursor is idle over an entry in the Track or Race list while the data refreshes, thst entry is not displayed until the cursor is moved.That its rollover color changed to white. How to overcome this.
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How to find if all items in a list containing the selected color

Hi
I'm using the code below to check what color the user has selected. This is only working when my item got one color. Now I would like to change my code so each item can have one or more colors (seperated by semicolon). I guess
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It's possible to disable custom color from color picker?

Hi guys!
I've searched in the threads about color picker but I found anything about it...
It's possible to disable the option to select a custom color? I work in a enterprise who makes softwares to brazilian clients, and not everybody understands english phrases...
Another way it's to translate the option, but I don't know if is possible too.
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You definitely need to add the stylesheet to the Scene, not to anything else. If you take my example and change
scene.getStylesheets()...
to
root.getStylesheets()...
you'll see that it won't work any more.
The difference between this and the css you used is that the css you used is applied to the display of the color picker button; you need to apply styles to the popup (the color palette), which is not contained in your VBox or AnchorPanes. Notice how the font has changed for the name of the color in the button, but it hasn't changed for the "Custom Color" label you are trying to remove.
Somewhere there is some code that is adding the VBox you are subclassing to a Scene, and setting that scene into a stage. Your best option (perhaps second best option, see below) is to find that code so you can add the stylesheet to the Scene itself.
If you're working within a framework someone else has written, and can't access or change the code where the scene is defined, you have another option that I can see. Every Node has a scene property that refers to the scene to which that node belongs. So you could observe changes to that property and when it's updated, add the stylesheet to the scene.
So here is a hack to make my original hack work, in the event that you cannot access the scene directly, for some reason:
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@Override
public void changed(ObservableValue<? extends Scene> observable,
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This code basically says "when the color picker becomes part of a new scene, add the stylesheet to that scene".
At this point, you're applying hack on top of hack to get the effect you need. I think if I were in this situation I would just go ahead and define my own color picker. All you really need is a MenuButton, a property to hold the selected color, and a popup with a layout of controls to choose an arbitrary color. It would be a bit of work, but shouldn't be too hard. If you take this option (which I think may be your best bet), it's more work now but it will be clear what you are doing - when you (or other programmers on your team) come back to the code later you'll understand how it works much better.
You should also file a couple of feature requests. One for API to enable/disable the option to choose a custom color, as this seems like a reasonable piece of functionality to have. The other should be for properly internationalized text for the labels in the color picker, as these are currently just hard coded into the source code in English.

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import java.awt.Color;
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import java.awt.FlowLayout;
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import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
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import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JComboBox;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JList;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.ListCellRenderer;
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Edited by: Lofi on Mar 20, 2010 10:46 PM

i thought i'd share what i've found. the solution seems to be quite simple: wrap the combobox label in a panel.Brilliant! I'm sure this will be useful to others who find this solution here.
Your code does have some unnecessary overheads though, like constructing a new JPanel in every call to getListCellRendererComponent, and holding a separate renderer as a field. I've attempted to clean it up for brevity and efficiency.import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Component;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import javax.swing.DefaultListCellRenderer;
import javax.swing.JCheckBox;
import javax.swing.JComboBox;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JList;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;
public class DisabledForegroundListCellRenderer extends DefaultListCellRenderer {
private final JPanel wrapper = new JPanel(new BorderLayout());
public DisabledForegroundListCellRenderer() {
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    super.getListCellRendererComponent(list, value,
            index, isSelected, cellHasFocus);
    return wrapper;
// Test rig
public static void main(String[] args) {
    SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
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      public void run() {
        new DisabledForegroundListCellRenderer().makeUI();
public void makeUI() {
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    combo.setRenderer(new DisabledForegroundListCellRenderer());
    final JCheckBox check = new JCheckBox("Combo enabled");
    check.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
      @Override
      public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
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    check.doClick();
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    frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
    frame.add(check, BorderLayout.NORTH);
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if anyone knows a way to remove the dropdown button of a disabled combobox without leaving a blank space when you simply hide the buttonThat would require a custom UI delegate, not a custom renderer. And really, I wouldn't bother -- I would just use a JComboBox and a disabled (or maybe uneditable) JTextField, held in a CardLayout, and swap them instead of disabling the combo.
Shall take a look at how the combo UIs reserve space for the button though :)
luck, db
Edited by: DarrylBurke -- changed wrapper to private final, it shouldn't be static

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Hi all! Thanks for taking a minute to read my post!
I am writing a really basic JTree for showing a list of items.
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Wait --- let me be clear ---- I want to disable the selection of the root node only - still allowing selection of all its children.
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in the
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>
hi there,
>
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>
cheers
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I have a JTextArea, in which will contain various text.
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