Theme / style problem - shadow on insensitive label

[Robert Pearce <rob bdt-home demon co uk>]

Hi all,

I am building an application which includes, among other things, a bunch of radio buttons. One or more of these may, on occasion, be marked "insensitive" because the option is not available. OK so far.

My customer wants a visual style with white text on a dark blue background. Disabled (i.e. "insensitive") text should be mid-grey. Knowing how much people on here scream and yell about imposing such things, I am implementing that by providing a resource file that defines a theme.

The problem I have is that when I mark a radio button (or any label) "insensitive", the text acquires a shadow, and this shadow is WHITE! This makes it stand out even more than the active buttons, thus totally going against intent.

I've tried googling, and all I got was a thread on this list seven years ago in which somebody asked how to remove this shadow and was told in no uncertain terms that he shouldn't be imposing style decisions in the code. Well, I'm trying to use a theme, so please can somebody answer the question for me?

Cheers,
Rob