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Bug 270236 - Netbeans 8.2 - "TextField.inactiveForeground" and "TextField.inactiveBackground" not set by GUI designer
Summary: Netbeans 8.2 - "TextField.inactiveForeground" and "TextField.inactiveBackgrou...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: guibuilder
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Code (show other bugs)
Version: 8.0.1
Hardware: PC All
: P3 normal (vote)
Assignee: issues@guibuilder
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Reported: 2017-03-29 02:43 UTC by aplatypus
Modified: 2017-03-29 02:43 UTC (History)
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Description aplatypus 2017-03-29 02:43:50 UTC 
Product Version = NetBeans IDE 8.2 (Build 201609300101)
Operating System = Windows 10 version 10.0 running on amd64
Java; VM; Vendor = 1.8.0_121
Runtime = Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 25.121-b13

Reproducibility: Happens every time

  * for some reason this Netbeans 8.2 version "Report a New Task" only shows versions up to  v8.0.1 -- It is very confusing and annoying

STEPS:
  * Open a SWING form in the designer
  * Select a TextField
  * Set Foreground to "TextField.inactiveForeground", from the Swing Palette
  * Set Background to ""TextField.inactiveBackground"", from the Swing Palette
  * You can observe the generated code looks something like:
       jTextField01.setForeground(  javax.swing.UIManager.getDefaults().getColor("TextField.inactiveForeground") )
  * Put a breakpoint on the setForeground and setBackground calls.
  * Show the panel with the preview window
  * Run the program
  * Colours are not used!

ACTUAL:
  
  In the preview the selected colours work correctly

  At runtime, the calls to:
       javax.swing.UIManager.getDefaults().getColor("TextField.inactiveForeground")
       javax.swing.UIManager.getDefaults().getColor("TextField.inactiveBackground")

  Return null and the colours displayed are some kind of basic default from the GUI designer.

  This is confirmed by using the debugger to inspect those return values

EXPECTED:

 It seems these values are only available to the designer -- In which case the designer needs to fill-in the RGB or Hex value for the selected colours.