JLabel with separate text and icon background colours

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Published on 2010-03-25T12:30:18Z Indexed on 2010/03/25 12:33 UTC
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Hey,

I have a simple Jlabel element with text and icon

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setting the background changes the full label colour.

I want to be able to only render the background colour on the text section of the label, ie - to have separate backgrounds/foregrounds for the icon and text. Selecting/deselecting the label will flip the colour behind the icon and text. Is this possible to do this by just extending JLabel, and if so which methods should i be looking to customise?

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My alternative idea is to create a panel with two separate label elements, one with an icon the other with text. It seems a bit messy, and before i start i'm wondering is there a smarter way of achieving this with Swing.

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