Setting color of an item in a Jcombobox in a JTable when editing

Hello,
I have a situation where I have a JCombobox in a JTable . The JCombobox is non-editable. The items within the combobox are colored in pink or blue in order to help the user differentiate between the two categories that are in the list.
But the problem is that when the user is on that cell and is just typing the first letter(s) in the combobox, he does see the item starting with that letter(s) but that item is not shown as colored. However, if the user clicks on the combobox with a mouse, the list pops-up and the items are shown as colored. I want the first part to work where the user can just use keyboard and see the items as colored in that cell itself. By default, currently when the row is selected the foreground is white and background is black. I want that particularly when this combobox has focus and an item is selected, the foreground should be of the same color as the color of the item.
Can someone help?
Thanks a lot in advance.

Additional information on above:
I associate a customized renderer with the column of my table for which i want to set the colors.
TableColumn tc6 = jTableDRS.getColumnModel().getColumn(myDRSModel.FINANCECODE_COLUMN);
tc6.setCellRenderer(new ColorRenderer());
here is the renderer that I am using...
public class ColorRenderer extends JLabel implements TableCellRenderer {
protected Border noFocusBorder;
public ColorRenderer() {
noFocusBorder = new EmptyBorder(1, 2, 1, 2);
setOpaque(true);
setBorder(noFocusBorder);
public Component getTableCellRendererComponent(JTable table, Object value,
boolean isSelected, boolean hasFocus, int row, int column) {
Color foreground = null;
Color background = null;
Font font = null;
if(column == myDRSModel.FINANCECODE_COLUMN)
setFont((font != null) ? font : table.getFont());
String str = (String)value.toString();
if (!str.equalsIgnoreCase("SELECT ONE")) {
int y = financedesc.indexOf(str);
if((payreceiveind.get(y).toString()).equals("R")){
setForeground(Color.RED);
} else if((payreceiveind.get(y).toString()).equals("P")){
setForeground(new Color(147,112,240));
if(isSelected)
if((payreceiveind.get(y).toString()).equals("R")){
setForeground(Color.RED);
} else if((payreceiveind.get(y).toString()).equals("P")){
setForeground(new Color(147,112,240));
setBackground(table.getSelectionBackground());
else{
setBackground(table.getBackground());
else
if(isSelected)
setForeground(table.getSelectionForeground());
setBackground(table.getSelectionBackground());
else
setForeground(table.getForeground());
setBackground(table.getBackground());
setValue(value);
return this;
protected void setValue(Object value) {
setText((value == null) ? "" : value.toString());
}

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