Change StaticText background color dynamically with JasperReports API

Question

I would like to change the background color of Static text programmatically, nothing happened, but setForecolor is working (change the font color).

for example:

JRDesignStaticText _StaticText = new JRDesignStaticText();
// setForecolor is working
_StaticText.setForecolor(java.awt.Color.green);
//but setBackcolor not working
_StaticText.setBackcolor(java.awt.Color.red);

Answer 1

The background color is applied when the element is opaque. So you need to also do

_StaticText.setMode(ModeEnum.OPAQUE);