SetBackground color not working

Hello,
While viewing my applet from within a HTML file, my background color is still grey, except the buttons.
The color is fine while viewing with appletviewer so I'm a bit confussed.
Any ideas as to why would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.awt.event.*;
public class MyCalendar extends javax.swing.JApplet {
 public void init()
 Container content = getContentPane();
 JPanel calendars = new JPanel(new GridLayout(0,1));
 JScrollPane jsp = new JScrollPane(calendars);
 content.add(jsp, BorderLayout.CENTER);
 GregorianCalendar gc = new GregorianCalendar();
 //gc.set(GregorianCalendar.DAY_OF_YEAR,1);c
 gc.set(GregorianCalendar.DAY_OF_MONTH,1);
 for (int i=0; i<12; i++)
 calendars.add(new CalendarPanel(gc));
 gc.add(GregorianCalendar.MONTH, 1);
 //setSize(300, 300);
 //setVisible(true);
class CalendarPanel extends JPanel implements ActionListener
 private JLabel jl;
 private int testYear;
 private final static String[] DOW = {"S","M","T","W","T","F","S"};
 SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("MMMM");
 GridBagConstraints gbc = new GridBagConstraints(0,0,7,1,1.0,1.0,GridBagConstraints.CENTER,
 GridBagConstraints.HORIZONTAL,new Insets(0,0,0,0),0,0);
 public CalendarPanel(GregorianCalendar cal)
 setLayout(new GridBagLayout());
 setBorder(BorderFactory.createEtchedBorder());
 setBackground(Color.white);
 //get the month name
 String testMonth=sdf.format(cal.getTime());
 testYear = cal.get(GregorianCalendar.YEAR);
 int nextYear = cal.get(GregorianCalendar.YEAR)+1;
 JLabel lblYear = new JLabel(""+testYear);
 JLabel jl = new JLabel(testMonth, JLabel.CENTER);
 add(jl,gbc);
 gbc.gridwidth=1;
 gbc.gridy=1;
 for (int i=0; i<7; i++)
 gbc.gridx=i;
 add(new JLabel(DOW, JLabel.CENTER),gbc);
 gbc.gridx = cal.get(GregorianCalendar.DAY_OF_WEEK)-1;
 gbc.gridy++;
 int daysInMonth = cal.getActualMaximum(GregorianCalendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
 for (int i=1; i<=daysInMonth; i++)
 JButton jb = new JButton(""+i);
 jb.setBackground(Color.white);
 jb.setForeground(Color.blue);
 jb.addActionListener(this);
 //jb.setBorder(BorderFactory.createRaisedBevelBorder());
 add(jb,gbc);
 if (++gbc.gridx==7)
 gbc.gridx=0;
 gbc.gridy++;
 public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event)
 String command = event.getActionCommand();
 if(event.getSource() instanceof JButton)
 System.out.println("Button:"+command);
 String text = jl.getText();
 System.out.println("Month:"+text);
 System.out.println("Year:"+testYear);

Ok, the last one worked but now one of my labels won't change color even after jl.setOpaque(true).
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.awt.event.*;
public class MyCalendar extends javax.swing.JApplet {
 public void init()
 Container content = getContentPane();
 JPanel calendars = new JPanel(new GridLayout(0,1));
 JScrollPane jsp = new JScrollPane(calendars);
 content.add(jsp, BorderLayout.CENTER);
 GregorianCalendar gc = new GregorianCalendar();
 //gc.set(GregorianCalendar.DAY_OF_YEAR,1);c
 gc.set(GregorianCalendar.DAY_OF_MONTH,1);
 for (int i=0; i<12; i++)
 calendars.setOpaque(true); //this worked
 calendars.add(new CalendarPanel(gc));
 gc.add(GregorianCalendar.MONTH, 1);
class CalendarPanel extends JPanel implements ActionListener
 private JLabel jl;
 private int testYear;
 private final static String[] DOW = {"S","M","T","W","T","F","S"};
 SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("MMMM");
 GridBagConstraints gbc = new GridBagConstraints(0,0,7,1,1.0,1.0,GridBagConstraints.CENTER,
 GridBagConstraints.HORIZONTAL,new Insets(0,0,0,0),0,0);
 public CalendarPanel(GregorianCalendar cal)
 setLayout(new GridBagLayout());
 setBorder(BorderFactory.createEtchedBorder());
 setBackground(Color.white);
 //get the month name
 String testMonth=sdf.format(cal.getTime());
 testYear = cal.get(GregorianCalendar.YEAR);
 int nextYear = cal.get(GregorianCalendar.YEAR)+1;
 JLabel lblYear = new JLabel(""+testYear);
 JLabel jl = new JLabel(testMonth, JLabel.CENTER);
 jl.setOpaque(true); //only works in appletviewer NOT html
 jl.setBackground(Color.red);
 add(jl,gbc);
 gbc.gridwidth=1;
 gbc.gridy=1;
 for (int i=0; i<7; i++)
 gbc.gridx=i;
 add(new JLabel(DOW, JLabel.CENTER),gbc);
 gbc.gridx = cal.get(GregorianCalendar.DAY_OF_WEEK)-1;
 gbc.gridy++;
 int daysInMonth = cal.getActualMaximum(GregorianCalendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
 for (int i=1; i<=daysInMonth; i++)
 JButton jb = new JButton(""+i);
 jb.setBackground(Color.white);
 jb.setForeground(Color.blue);
 jb.addActionListener(this);
 jb.setBorder(BorderFactory.createRaisedBevelBorder());
 add(jb,gbc);
 if (++gbc.gridx==7)
 gbc.gridx=0;
 gbc.gridy++;
 public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event)
 String command = event.getActionCommand();
 if(event.getSource() instanceof JButton)
 System.out.println("Button:"+command);
 String text = jl.getText();
 System.out.println("Month:"+text);
 System.out.println("Year:"+testYear);
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You need to make sure that your clips have enough media (called 'handles') at the beginning of the incoming clip and at the end of the outgoing clip for the transition. For example, if you have a 1 second (30 frame) dissolve, your in and out point need to be at least 15 frames from the edge of the clip.
What you are running into is that you are marking an out point at the end of a clip then adding a cross dissolve, say 20 frames in duration. Since the dissolve is centered on the cut, it will start 10 frames before the cut, and try to go 10 frames AFTER the cut...which it can't do.
What you need to do is plan how long your dissolve will be and back-time your cut so that it works.
a full 1 second crossfade reaches 15 frames into each clip. So, if you want to change a cut to a crossfade, there has to be at least 15 additional frames of each clip.
Say you're trying to crossfade from one clip into the very first frame of a second clip. FCP cannot 'create' 15 more frames of the second clip to do a crossfade. If they're not there, you're out of luck.
FCP has to extend the end of your first clip by 1/2 of your transition length, and the beginning of your second clip by 1/2 of your transition length, so those frames need to be in your system. The nature of a crossfade is mixing two clips together.
Shane

Photoshop Print Screen/Paste colors not working any more

System. Windows 7 Professional 64 bit with Adobe CS4
One thing I do all the time is this:
Have something like Windows Internet Explorer open on a web page.
I want a screen shot of Windows IE. So I press Ctrl-Alt-Print Screen.
Then I open Adobe Photoshop CS4 (11.0.2) and go File/New and accept all the defaults.
Then I press Ctrl-V to paste in the screen capture.
Pretty standard stuff and it used to work fine. But recently it stopped working. Now when I paste, the colors displayed in Photoshop for the screen capture are all off. However if I save the file as a GIF or something, and open the GIF outside of photoshop, it's all good.
I've tried all sorts of things to fix this. Nothing seems to work.
Anyone know what is really going on here? This seems to have happened after performing some Windows updates.

gdkjunk912 wrote:
So how do I set up a "good custom monitor profile"?
This is why people calibrate and profile their monitors. If you had a calibrator this wouldn't be a problem (and they're not that expensive).
What you need is a profile that accurately describes the behavior of your particular monitor. Chances are the Dell profile does that better than sRGB, and a custom profile from a calibrator would be even better. Then Photoshop, which is color managed, will use that profile to display the image - but Internet Explorer, which is not (or not fully) color managed, will not use the profile.
So there will be a difference between the two right there, and Photoshop will be right, and IE wrong.
The way this works is similar to any other profile conversion, like when you convert a document from, say, Adobe RGB to sRGB. Photoshop converts from the document profile to the monitor profile, on the fly, as it displays the image. This way it compensates for the peculiarities of your monitor and what you see is what the file "really" looks like.
So you can see what happens if your document profile is sRGB, and your monitor profile is sRGB: nothing happens. No profile conversion, no color management. This way Photoshop behaves exactly as Internet Explorer does. Everything you see on-screen, color managed or not color managed, will match. But it won't be right. One way to simulate this (with a good monitor profile) is to proof to Monitor RGB.
As for the screenshot: when you paste that into a new document, the RGB numbers will refer to the monitor profile, not the document profile. This is why you assign the monitor profile to make it look like the original. Then you convert that to sRGB (or Adobe RGB etc) to bring it into a standard color space.

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Hello all,
I setup Yosemite in parallels to test...
Strange as it may seem I like to use the inverted colors (dark mode is not enough)
Wondering if anyone knows why invert colors does nothing now.
Maybe a parallels bug but wanted to make sure it wasn't a
Yosemite bug before I install it on my production machine.
Thanks,
Mark

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