Nimbus L&F trying to change background color of JFormattedTextField with UIManager

Question

SSCCE

import java.awt.EventQueue;
import java.text.NumberFormat;
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;
import javax.swing.JFormattedTextField;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.UIManager;
import javax.swing.UnsupportedLookAndFeelException;
import javax.swing.WindowConstants;
import javax.swing.event.DocumentEvent;
import javax.swing.event.DocumentListener;
import javax.swing.plaf.ColorUIResource;
import javax.swing.text.Document;
import javax.swing.text.NumberFormatter;

public class Test extends JFrame{

    private JFormattedTextField input, input2;
    private NumberFormatter formatter;


    public Test() {
        formatter = new NumberFormatter(NumberFormat.getNumberInstance());
        input = new JFormattedTextField(formatter);
        input2 = new JFormattedTextField(formatter);


        input.setColumns(4);
        input2.setColumns(4);
        input.setValue(0.0);
        JPanel panel = new JPanel();
        panel.add(input);
        panel.add(input2);

        add(panel);
        pack();
        setVisible(true);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            for (UIManager.LookAndFeelInfo info : UIManager.getInstalledLookAndFeels()) {
                if ("Nimbus".equals(info.getName())) {
                    UIManager.setLookAndFeel(info.getClassName());
                    UIManager.put("nimbusBase", new ColorUIResource(0, 0, 0));
                    UIManager.put("FormattedTextField.background", Color.RED);
                    UIManager.put("control", new ColorUIResource(153, 76, 0));
                    UIManager.put("textForeground", new ColorUIResource(255, 153, 51));
                    break;
                } }
        } 
        catch (ClassNotFoundException | InstantiationException | IllegalAccessException | UnsupportedLookAndFeelException ex) {
            Logger.getLogger(Test.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
        }

        EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                new Test();
            }
        });

    }
}

Problem

Simply put I'm attempting to change the background color of an Enabled JFormattedTextField from the default white to my RGB color. I used the table found here (Link in this blog ) to find the appropriate name.

I realize the blog is a little bit outdated (6 years) and Nimbus has been updated a ton since then, so this might be my issue.

How do I go about using UIManager to change the background color of a JFormattedTextField ?

Corrected Code

I updated the code above, it works as it should now. The issue was using ColorUIResource instead of just Color .

Answer 1

How do I go about using UIManager to change the background color of a JFormattedTextField?

You have to set this property FormattedTextField.background as found here Nimbus Defaults

Something like this

 UIManager.put("FormattedTextField.background", Color.RED);