JProgressBar Changing Bar Color dynamically

Question

I am using JProgressBar component along with the Nimbus UI Defaults. The problem is that When I want to manually change each progressbar's Bar color, I use BasicProgressBarUI by setting JProgressBar.setUI() function. This makes more trouble because I would like to just change the bar color and it seems that I loose the default look of the jprogressbar (Border, backgroundcolor dissappears).

So I can set UIDefaults of Nimbus ProgressBar when the code initializes. It works.

But I want to change each progressbar's bar color dynamically.

Is there any other way of changing Bar color of JProgressBar?

public class ProgressGenerator extends JFrame {

    protected int minValue = 0;
    protected int maxValue = 100;
    protected int counter = 0;
    protected JProgressBar progressBar;

    public ProgressGenerator() {
        super("JProgressBar Demo");
        setSize(300, 100);

        try {
            UIManager.setLookAndFeel("com.sun.java.swing.plaf.nimbus.NimbusLookAndFeel");
        } catch (ClassNotFoundException e1) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e1.printStackTrace();
        } catch (InstantiationException e1) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e1.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IllegalAccessException e1) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e1.printStackTrace();
        } catch (UnsupportedLookAndFeelException e1) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e1.printStackTrace();
        }

        progressBar = new JProgressBar();
        progressBar.setMinimum(minValue);
        progressBar.setMaximum(maxValue);
        progressBar.setStringPainted(true);

        progressBar.setForeground(Color.GREEN);

        JButton start = new JButton("Start");
        start.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                Thread runner = new Thread() {
                    public void run() {
                        counter = minValue;
                        while (counter <= maxValue) {
                            Runnable runme = new Runnable() {
                                public void run() {
                                    progressBar.setValue(counter);
                                }
                            };
                            SwingUtilities.invokeLater(runme);
                            counter++;
                            try {
                                Thread.sleep(100);
                            } catch (Exception ex) {
                            }
                        }
                    }
                };
                runner.start();
            }
        });
        getContentPane().add(progressBar, BorderLayout.CENTER);
        getContentPane().add(start, BorderLayout.WEST);
        WindowListener wndCloser = new WindowAdapter() {
            public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e) {
                System.exit(0);
            }
        };
        addWindowListener(wndCloser);
        setVisible(true);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new ProgressGenerator();
    }
}

Answer 1

+1 to Kelopatra for being first.

Here is an example I made:

The JProgressBar color is initaily set via:

UIDefaults defaults = new UIDefaults();
defaults.put("ProgressBar[Enabled].foregroundPainter", new MyPainter(Color.GREEN));
defaults.put("ProgressBar[Enabled+Finished].foregroundPainter", new MyPainter(Color.GREEN));

progressBar.putClientProperty("Nimbus.Overrides.InheritDefaults", Boolean.TRUE);
progressBar.putClientProperty("Nimbus.Overrides", defaults);

On 50% progress the color will be changed to RED:

if (progressBar.getValue() == 50) {//change color on 50%
   UIDefaults defaults = new UIDefaults();
   defaults.put("ProgressBar[Enabled].foregroundPainter", new MyPainter(Color.RED));
   defaults.put("ProgressBar[Enabled+Finished].foregroundPainter", new MyPainter(Color.RED));
   progressBar.putClientProperty("Nimbus.Overrides.InheritDefaults", Boolean.TRUE);
   progressBar.putClientProperty("Nimbus.Overrides", defaults);                          
}

Test.java:

import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.beans.*;
import javax.swing.*;

public class Test {

    public static void createAndShowGUI() {
        JFrame frame = new JFrame();
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);

        final JProgressBar progressBar = new JProgressBar();
        progressBar.setStringPainted(true);
        progressBar.setValue(0);
        progressBar.setBorderPainted(false);

        JButton startButton = new JButton("Start");

        startButton.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
            @Override
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae) {
                UIDefaults defaults = new UIDefaults();
                defaults.put("ProgressBar[Enabled].foregroundPainter", new MyPainter(Color.GREEN));
                defaults.put("ProgressBar[Enabled+Finished].foregroundPainter", new MyPainter(Color.GREEN));

                progressBar.putClientProperty("Nimbus.Overrides.InheritDefaults", Boolean.TRUE);
                progressBar.putClientProperty("Nimbus.Overrides", defaults);

                SwingWorker worker = new SwingWorker() {
                    int current = 0, lengthOfTask = 100;

                    @Override
                    public Void doInBackground() {
                        while (current <= lengthOfTask && !isCancelled()) {

                            try { // dummy task
                                Thread.sleep(50);
                            } catch (InterruptedException ie) {
                            }

                            setProgress(100 * current / lengthOfTask);
                            current++;
                        }
                        return null;
                    }
                };
                worker.addPropertyChangeListener(new PropertyChangeListener() {
                    @Override
                    public void propertyChange(PropertyChangeEvent pce) {

                        String strPropertyName = pce.getPropertyName();
                        if ("progress".equals(strPropertyName)) {
                            int progress = (Integer) pce.getNewValue();
                            progressBar.setValue(progress);

                            if (progressBar.getValue() == 50) {//change color on 50%
                                UIDefaults defaults = new UIDefaults();
                                defaults.put("ProgressBar[Enabled].foregroundPainter", new MyPainter(Color.RED));
                                defaults.put("ProgressBar[Enabled+Finished].foregroundPainter", new MyPainter(Color.RED));

                                progressBar.putClientProperty("Nimbus.Overrides.InheritDefaults", Boolean.TRUE);
                                progressBar.putClientProperty("Nimbus.Overrides", defaults);
                            }

                        }
                    }
                });
                worker.execute();
            }
        });

        JPanel holder = new JPanel();
        holder.add(progressBar);
        holder.add(startButton);

        frame.add(holder);
        frame.pack();
        frame.setVisible(true);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                try {
                    UIManager.setLookAndFeel("com.sun.java.swing.plaf.nimbus.NimbusLookAndFeel");
                } catch (ClassNotFoundException | InstantiationException | IllegalAccessException | UnsupportedLookAndFeelException ex) {
                    ex.printStackTrace();
                }
                createAndShowGUI();
            }
        });
    }
}

class MyPainter implements Painter<JProgressBar> {

    private final Color color;

    public MyPainter(Color c1) {
        this.color = c1;
    }
    @Override
    public void paint(Graphics2D gd, JProgressBar t, int width, int height) {
        gd.setColor(color);
        gd.fillRect(0, 0, width, height);
    }
}