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Hi All,
I am using the wonderful windows XP look and feel that stefan krause has put together. However, I want to change just the background of the menubars. When I do menuBar.setBackground(color) this doesn't override what is the default colour set by the look and feel.
I just want to change this little bit of the look and feel, what is the best way of doing this?
Adam

I switched back and forth by alternately calling
UIManager.setLookAndFeel("com.stefankrause.xplookandfeel.XPLookAndFeel");
...create some components...
UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());
...create some more components...
UIManager.setLookAndFeel("com.stefankrause.xplookandfeel.XPLookAndFeel");
...and create even more...
It seemed to work, but I'm not sure that's the best way.

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