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Message: [QUOTE="James Kimble, post: 605538"] I've been given the task up updating the appearence (ie color when selected or not) of some JToggleButtons on a fairly large application and it seems like a really bad idea to do this via btn.setBackground or btn.setForeground etc... I know it should be done via a UIManager to uniformly set the look and feel of these buttons to something different than the default. The problem I have is that I have no idea how to do this and I haven't been able to find anything useful on the internet. The original author did some of this stuff but changing doesn't seem to change the appearance of the app and I have to wonder if it's doing anything at all. --------------------------------------------------------------- UIDefaults def = UIManager.getDefaults(); Object buttonBorder = new UIDefaults.ProxyLazyValue( "javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicBorders", "getButtonBorder"); def.putDefaults(new Object[] { "Button.border", buttonBorder, "ProgressBar.selectionForeground", Color.black, "ProgressBar.selectionBackground", Color.black, "Panel.background", Color.gray, "Button.background", Color.gray, "Label.background", Color.gray, } ); ------------------------------------------------------------ Can someone give me a hint or point me to a useful resource for this type of thing. How hard can it possibly be? Any help much appreciated.... [/QUOTE]