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The file-selection tabs in the main GUI (pseudo-MDI) use the system color for inactive titlebars as background, but the color of the text is hardcoded as black. This results in completely unreadable tabs with certain color settings. To reproduce: Configure Windows to have inactive titlebars use a dark blue background color and a white foreground color. Start NetBeans. Expected results: The tabs should either use the system's colors for both foreground and background (dark blue with white text in this case), or set its own colors for both foreground and background. Actual results: The tabs use black text on a dark blue background.
Created attachment 72347 [details] Unreadable tabs.
Created attachment 72348 [details] Shows how NetBeans applies the system colors.
reassign to windows system for evaluation
Happens on Linux as well. Tested on Ubuntu Intrepid Dark Room theme.
afaik, NB doesn't support custom windows colors.
The issue is that you are forcing black text on a background of undetermined color. Since any other background color than 0x808080 (the Windows default) is apparently unsupported, why not force the background to the supported value? Foreground and background must be contrasting colors. To ensure contrast, you must set either *none* or *both* colors.
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