Change backgroundcolor of Labels

Hello everyone,

I have a question about changing the color of a Label,
Normally i should use this: Label.setBackground(Color.black);
But i want to use more collors wich are not implemented in Java, so i created the myselve:
Color gold = new Color(255, 215, 0);
Color silver = new Color(192, 192, 192);

When I want to use these self-created colors to change this Background of the label, it's not possible.
I tried this for example:
Label.setBackground(silver);
Label.setBackground(Color.silver);
Label.setBackground(192,192,192);
This all doesn't work.

Can somebody help me with this?

Thanks a lot from Holland!

Label.setBackground(silver); should work, if Label ist the variable name of the label (if so, read the naming conventions :D)
Is there a compiler error?
Do you use the setBackground method in an inner class and silver is a local variable? (then it must be final!) ...how does the code looks like?! Give us more informations!

Assuming this is Swing (I don't know how AWT works) you need to make the labels opaque first:

Code:

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label.setOpaque( true );
label.setBackground(...);

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