Selected day background color

Question

I have long wished that the background color of the selected day were more visible. I stumbled across this workaround that might be useful, at least on my iMac.
In System preferences, Universal access set the contrast slider is all the way to the left. It makes a significant difference in the visibility of the selected day. Not perfect but better, and it doesn't take much to obliterate the background color.
The keyboard command to lower the contrast is ctrl-opt-cmd-, to increase use a "." instead of the "," and you can really see the difference with iCal open.

Answer 1

Your DateChooser dialog is modal. The setVisible(true) method is thus a blocking method. You must make sure you did retrieve its date before you call fireEditingStopped :           public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
               if (EDIT.equals(e.getActionCommand())) {
                    //The user has clicked the cell, so
                    //bring up the dialog.
                    button.setText(dateFormat.format(curDate));
                    dateChooser.setDate(curDate);
                    dateChooser.setVisible(true); //Make the renderer reappear.
                    curDate = dateChooser.getDate();
                    fireEditingStopped();
               } else {
                    curDate = dateChooser.getDate();
          }