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JComboBox.setBackground not working?

843806Aug 8 2007 — edited Aug 10 2007

I'm trying to change the background color of a JComboBox (not the selection list), and it doesn't seem to be working. For example

JComboBox myCombo = new JComboBox(new String[] { "values" });
myCombo.setBackground(Color.GREEN);

should change the background color of the JComboBox to green... right? But this doesn't seem to occur. What is interesting is that the following code

JComboBox.myCombo = new JComboBox(new String[] { "values" });
myCombo.setForeground(Color.GREEN);

will successfully change the font of the JComboBox to green.
Has anyone else experienced this problem?

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