UIManager color at a JFileChooser

Question

I'm using Nimbus Look and Feel, with only 3 changes at its colors:

UIManager.put("nimbusSelection", new Color(164,164,164));
UIManager.put("nimbusSelectionBackground", new Color(214,217,223));
UIManager.put("nimbusSelectedText", Color.BLACK);

My FileChooser looks like this:

So selected file's name appears in white and looks bad, and it also happens for the file type selected at the combobox. I want to change it to Black, but nimbusSelectedText is already black and is not working.

I also had a look at the Nimbus Defaults guide at http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/lookandfeel/_nimbusDefaults.html#primary and i see no parameter at FileChooser or Combobox to fix this.

Any help identifying the necessary parameters? Thanks

Answer 1

Well, there is one way possible to do it. You can get the JList from your JFileChooser and modify it:

public boolean getJList(Container c)
{
    Component[] cmps = c.getComponents();
    for (Component cmp : cmps)
    {
        if (cmp instanceof JList)
        {
            modifyJList((JList)cmp);
            return true;
        }
        if (cmp instanceof Container)
        {
            if(getJList((Container) cmp)) return true;
        }
    }
    return false;
}
private void modifyJList(JList list)
{
    // Here you can modify your JList
}

and to use it, just call getJList():

JFileChooser chooser = new JFileChooser();
getJList(chooser);