JCheckBox - how to change colour of content

Question

I have a JTable which has a JCheckBox in the first column. In certain cases I want this checkbox to be disabled. I am using a custom renderer (extends JCheckBox implements TableCellRenderer) in which I can set the background and foreground colours - but this doesn't allow me to set the colour of the area in the checkbox where the tick appears (i.e. to make the checkbox appear disabled).
I am overriding isCellEditable() in a custom table model which correctly disallows editing of the checkboxes I want disabled.
Does anyone know how to set the colour of the central area of a JCheckBox ?

Answer 1

Since you are already using a custom renderer: Why don' you try
public Component getTableCellRendererComponent(JTable table,
Object value,
boolean isSelected,
boolean hasFocus,
int row,
int column) {
/* change this to whatever condition you have... */
if (row == 1 && column ==2) {
setEnabled(false);
else {
setEnabled(true);
This will get you the default look and feel of disabled checkbuttons.
Otherwise, if you really want a different look for the checkbox, you have to ovverride the correspondig paint method for checkboxes.