Unsightly Colors!

Having a minor inconvenience with the JFrame and JTabbedPane colors for they seem to clash with my overall simplistic theme. Code is as follows...
import java.awt.EventQueue;
import javax.swing.text.BadLocationException;
@SuppressWarnings("serial")
public class RTE extends javax.swing.JFrame implements java.awt.event.KeyListener {
     //Variable declarations
     private javax.swing.JPanel titlePanel, cliPanel;
     private javax.swing.JLabel titleLabel = new javax.swing.JLabel("TITLE");
     private javax.swing.JLabel clockLabel = new javax.swing.JLabel();
     private java.text.SimpleDateFormat timeFormat = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm:ss");
     private javax.swing.JTextPane cliTextPane = new javax.swing.JTextPane();
     private javax.swing.JTextField cliEntryTextField = new javax.swing.JTextField();
     private javax.swing.JScrollPane cliScrollPane = new javax.swing.JScrollPane();
     private javax.swing.JTabbedPane tabbedPane = new javax.swing.JTabbedPane();
     private javax.swing.JTextArea missionTextArea = new javax.swing.JTextArea("Mission TextArea!");
     private javax.swing.JTextArea helpTextArea = new javax.swing.JTextArea("Help TextArea!");
     //Doc variables
     private javax.swing.text.StyledDocument doc = cliTextPane.getStyledDocument();
     private javax.swing.text.Style def = javax.swing.text.StyleContext.getDefaultStyleContext().getStyle(javax.swing.text.StyleContext.DEFAULT_STYLE);
     private javax.swing.text.Style reg = doc.addStyle("regular", def);
     private javax.swing.text.Style white = doc.addStyle("white", reg);
     private javax.swing.text.Style green = doc.addStyle("green", reg);
     //End variable declarations
      * |-- Application initiation --|
     private void init() {
          //Start timer
          setTime();
          timer.start();
          //Doc variables
          javax.swing.text.StyleConstants.setFontFamily(def, "Lucida Console");
          javax.swing.text.StyleConstants.setFontSize(def, 12);
          javax.swing.text.StyleConstants.setForeground(white, java.awt.Color.WHITE);
          javax.swing.text.StyleConstants.setForeground(green, java.awt.Color.GREEN);
          try {
               doc.insertString(doc.getLength(), "Hello World!", reg);
          }catch (BadLocationException ble) { }
          //GUI variable alterations
          titleLabel.setForeground(java.awt.Color.WHITE);
          titleLabel.setFont(new java.awt.Font("Lucida Console", java.awt.Font.BOLD, 14));
          clockLabel.setForeground(java.awt.Color.WHITE);
          clockLabel.setFont(new java.awt.Font("Lucida Console", java.awt.Font.BOLD, 14));
          cliTextPane.setForeground(java.awt.Color.WHITE);
          cliTextPane.setBackground(java.awt.Color.BLACK);
          cliTextPane.setEditable(false);
          cliScrollPane.setViewportView(cliTextPane);
          cliScrollPane.setBorder(null);
          cliEntryTextField.setForeground(java.awt.Color.WHITE);
          cliEntryTextField.setBackground(java.awt.Color.BLACK);
          cliEntryTextField.setFont(new java.awt.Font("Lucida Console", 0, 12));
          cliEntryTextField.setCaretColor(java.awt.Color.WHITE);
          cliEntryTextField.addKeyListener(this);
          cliEntryTextField.setEditable(true);
          missionTextArea.setForeground(java.awt.Color.WHITE);
          missionTextArea.setBackground(java.awt.Color.BLACK);
          missionTextArea.setFont(new java.awt.Font("Lucida Console", 0, 12));
          missionTextArea.setBorder(null);
          missionTextArea.setEditable(false);
          helpTextArea.setForeground(java.awt.Color.WHITE);
          helpTextArea.setBackground(java.awt.Color.BLACK);
          helpTextArea.setFont(new java.awt.Font("Lucida Console", 0, 12));
          helpTextArea.setEditable(false);
          //Dimension of screen size
          java.awt.Dimension dimension = java.awt.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize();
          //Panel configuration
          titlePanel = new javax.swing.JPanel();
          titlePanel.setLayout(new java.awt.BorderLayout());
          titlePanel.setBackground(java.awt.Color.BLACK);
          titlePanel.setBounds(0, 0,(int) (dimension.getWidth()), 20);
          titlePanel.add(titleLabel, java.awt.BorderLayout.WEST);
          titlePanel.add(clockLabel, java.awt.BorderLayout.EAST);
          cliPanel = new javax.swing.JPanel();
          cliPanel.setLayout(new java.awt.BorderLayout());
          cliPanel.setBackground(java.awt.Color.BLACK);
          cliPanel.setBounds(0, 20, (int) (dimension.getWidth()), (int) (dimension.getHeight()*0.8));
          cliPanel.add(cliScrollPane, java.awt.BorderLayout.CENTER);
          cliPanel.add(cliEntryTextField, java.awt.BorderLayout.SOUTH);
          tabbedPane.setBackground(java.awt.Color.BLACK);
          tabbedPane.setBounds(0, (int) (dimension.getHeight()*0.82), (int) (dimension.getWidth()), (int) (dimension.getHeight()*0.18));
          tabbedPane.setBorder(null);
          tabbedPane.addTab("Mission Objective", null, missionTextArea, "Mission objectives.");
          tabbedPane.addTab("Help", null, helpTextArea, "Help");
          setDefaultCloseOperation(javax.swing.JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
                setSize(0, 0);
                setBackground(java.awt.Color.BLACK);
                setLayout(null);
                add(titlePanel);
                add(cliPanel);
                add(tabbedPane);
                pack();
                setVisible(true);
                java.awt.Container container = getContentPane();
                javax.swing.JWindow window = new javax.swing.JWindow(this);
                window.setSize(dimension);
                window.add(container);
                window.setVisible(true);
     private void setTime() {
          clockLabel.setText(timeFormat.format(System.currentTimeMillis()));
     private javax.swing.Timer timer = new javax.swing.Timer(1000, new java.awt.event.ActionListener() {
        public void actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
            setTime();
      * |-- Key Listener --|
     public void keyPressed(java.awt.event.KeyEvent ke) {
          // TODO Auto-generated method stub
     //Not used
     public void keyReleased(java.awt.event.KeyEvent ke) {
     //Not used
     public void keyTyped(java.awt.event.KeyEvent ke) {
      * |-- Main method run --|
     public static void main(String[] args) {
          EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable(){
            public void run() {
                new RTE().init();
}If you notices there is a grey color above the JTabbedPane and a blue border to the panels within the JTabbedPane. I would like to be able to get rid of these colors. Any help would be much appreciated.

Hi ehoran
I think the issue here is the following:
1. I believe you are asking about FlashHelp created using the
new RoboHelp 6. I say this because the former versions never had
the "Loading FlashHelp" screen. Or if it did, nobody ever reported
an issue with it. Aesthetic or otherwise.
2. Changing this will likely require a unique individual that
has both RoboHelp and Flash skills. I'm guessing that there aren't
many folks out there with that unique skill set.
3. You are probably fairly accurate with your assumption that
not many folks are probably using this format.
Wish I had more to offer. Hopefully your "bump" will cause
someone else to chime in with some sage advice.
Sincerely... Rick

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                         startX : 0.0
                         startY : 0.0
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                         endY : 0.250
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                                   offset: 0.0
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}I have no clue why this happens. I tried to shift some things around, thinking it had to do something with the order of some elements but... it didn't change anything.
Another thing i noticed afterwards:
If i run the App as a desktop program, the gradient effect is all messed up. but this time it doesn't matter if I clip the list or not:
[http://www.7pics.info/?image=GHApp-GradientProblem-Desktop-1_d5e.jpg]
The gradients are totally misplaced and if I scroll down they move and appear/disappear randomly across the list entries. sometimes the highlighted elements even look like this:
[http://www.7pics.info/?image=GHApp-GradientProblem-Desktop-2_89f.jpg]
Any Ideas?
P.s.:
Could it be that retrieving the resolution of a mobile device via
"var screenWidth = java.lang.Integer.parseInt(FX.getProperty("javafx.screen.width"));"
isn't very accurate?
If i use the values i get from this method for the desktop application, the screen will be smaller than in the emulated mobile phone
Edited by: Mr._Moe on 04.09.2009 21:31

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