RFR: 7188058: Background of TextComponents are not changing colors to the default disabled color when set to uneditable

[Harshitha Onkar]

On Tue, 25 Jun 2024 04:05:00 GMT, Alisen Chung <achung at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Currently the bug described in the issue is that the colors of the TextComponents do not change when set ySystemColor.control color when the TextComponents are set to uneditable. You can check by changing TextComponent.getBackground() code to return Color.GRAY on line 342 and you can see that TextComponents are not changing to a gray background when set to uneditable.
> 
> This fix adds a private setBackground method in TextComponent so that TextArea and TextField can change the background color to the correct color (SystemColor.control) when set uneditable by overriding the TextComponent setEditable. You can verify the fix by changing this color to Color.GRAY and verifying the backgrounds change to gray when the TextComponents are disabled.

src/java.desktop/share/classes/java/awt/TextArea.java line 615:

> 613:         Color defaultBackground = UIManager.getColor("TextArea.background");
> 614:         if (!backgroundSetByClientCode) {
> 615:             setBackground(b ? defaultBackground : SystemColor.control, false);

Is there a reason behind choosing `SystemColor.control` as the default TextComponent system color?
I see another option `SystemColor.text` - the description sounds more close to the background color of text components.

-------------

PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/19876#discussion_r1663506190