How to disable a JCheckBox and leave the text the original color?

Question

When a JCheckBox is disabled, its text gets dim (gray). I need to just dim the checkbox but leave the text the original color.
I can't find the code where the text color changes when the box is disabled...
(I have found the code that draws the square and the box at: com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows.WindowsIconFactory .)
Any ideas?

Answer 1

Try this checkbox, i think you could customize to achieve exact behaviour:
import java.awt.Graphics;
import javax.swing.JCheckBox;
import javax.swing.JToggleButton;
public class KCheckBox extends JCheckBox
    private boolean clickable;
    private boolean enabled2;
    public KCheckBox()
        super();
        init();
     * @param text
    public KCheckBox( String text )
        super( text );
        init();
    private void init()
        setModel( new MyButtonModel() );
        this.clickable = true;
        this.enabled2 = true;
    public void paint( Graphics g )
        // store existing state
        boolean e = ((MyButtonModel)getModel()).isEnabled();
        // if !enabled - set not enabled
        // otherwise - set enabled
        ((MyButtonModel)getModel()).setEnabledNoFire( this.enabled2 );
        super.paint( g );
        // restore previous state
        ((MyButtonModel)getModel()).setEnabledNoFire(e);
    public void setClickable(boolean clickable)
        this.clickable = clickable;
        super.setEnabled(clickable && this.enabled2);
    public boolean isClickable()
        return this.clickable;
    public void setEnabled(boolean enabled)
        this.enabled2 = enabled;
        super.setEnabled(enabled && this.clickable);
    public boolean isEnabled()
        return this.enabled2;
    private class MyButtonModel extends JToggleButton.ToggleButtonModel
        public void setEnabledNoFire( boolean b )
            if (b) {
                stateMask |= ENABLED;
            } else {
                stateMask &= ~ENABLED;
}Edited by: unvadim on Sep 5, 2008 4:41 PM