How to disable (grey-out) the ticks of a JSlider?

Question

Hi everyone,
In my GUI, I have a JSlider that I want to be disabled (greyed out)
because it should be only actived on my application next version.
(It is important though to have it to preserve GUI appearence).
Problem is that I was unable to greyout the ticks even though
already managed to grey out the slider and the number labels.
Right now, it is pretty uggly to have a partial disabled slider,
because due to ticks not being disabled.
Questions:
1) Does anyone have an idea of how to do it?
A small part of my code is shown below:
JSlider dynSl = new JSlider();
dynSl.setMajorTickSpacing(1);
dynSl.setValue(0); //Default
dynSl.setMaximum(7);
dynSl.setMinimum(0);
dynSl.setPaintLabels(true);
dynSl.setPaintTicks(true);
dynSl.setFont(new java.awt.Font("Dialog", 0, 9));
dynSl.setSnapToTicks(true);
dynSl.setEnabled(false);
// small code just to put the numbers of the slider smaller
Enumeration enum = dynSl.getLabelTable().elements();
while (enum.hasMoreElements()) {
JLabel elem = (JLabel)enum.nextElement();
elem.setFont(new Font("Dialog",0,8));
elem.setEnabled(false);
2) If not possible, how do I change the colour of a JSlider (including
the Ticks)?
My idea is to change Slider's colour to the same grey colour one used
to disable it, making at the end the slider look as if it was disabled.
Thanks in advance,
Jorge

Answer 1

Hi again,
Thanks for the help.
I was trying to avoid not having the ticks at all but it seems to be
the best choise because I could not solve the problem of greying out
them.
I did some more troubleshooting though and for my surprise, if I use
the same code alone, i.e, a simple frame with just the slider it works
fine. I even thought that it was related with having Windows LnF as
opposed to Metal (Java) LnF, but that was not the problem.
The only thing it comes to mind, is that there may be some problem by including the slider on a GridBagLayout !?!?!?
Anyway,
What has no simple solution, solved is! :-)
Jorge