SystemColor - how to set

[Alex Molochnikov]

I am trying to globally change the value of one of SystemColor fields.
Apparently, it is loaded from UIDefaults (this is largely a guessing game
since there is almost no documenation available) and it should be possible
to change it by setting the appropriate key/value pair in UIDefaults.

But this is what happens in reality:

1. I set textHighlight in UIDefaults as the first statement in main():

UIManager.put("textHighlight",new ColorUIResource(Color.red));

2. I print out the RGB value of SystemColor.textHighlight: [r=0,g=0,b=128]

This is the original color - nothing changed.

Am I missing something obvious here? If this is a wrong approach to setting
SystemColor values, what is the right one?
Alex Molochnikov
Gestalt Corporation