How to correctly style borders of a CTabItem - java

I have written an Eclipse plugin which provides some UI which uses the CTabFolder component.
The CTabItems provided by Eclipse have a blue border when active and a white border when inactive (grey if the CTabItem is an Eclipse View).
The CTabItems which I have created are always bordered in white and the text on the active tab is underlined.
How can I control the style of my CTabItems to more closely match the Eclipse tabs?
EDIT:
I have come up with the following code which extracts the correct colors from the active Eclipse theme.
IWorkbench workBench = PlatformUI.getWorkbench();
ITheme theme = workBench.getThemeManager().getCurrentTheme();
ColorRegistry colreg = theme.getColorRegistry();
Color c1 = colreg.get(IWorkbenchThemeConstants.ACTIVE_TAB_BG_START);
Color c2 = colreg.get(IWorkbenchThemeConstants.ACTIVE_TAB_BG_END);
However, this isn't ideal as IWorkbenchThemeConstants is within an eclipse ui internal package.
Is there an alternative public way to reference the same colors referred to by these internal IWorkbenchThemeConstants?

You can use methods for defining gradient on selected and non-selected CTabFolder items. For example
CTabFolder folder = new CTabFolder(shell, SWT.BORDER);
folder.setBackground(new Color[]{display.getSystemColor(SWT.COLOR_YELLOW), display.getSystemColor(SWT.COLOR_RED)}, new int[]{100}, true);
folder.setSelectionBackground(new Color[]{display.getSystemColor(SWT.COLOR_WHITE), display.getSystemColor(SWT.COLOR_BLUE)}, new int[]{100}, true);
will produces this (ugly) tabs
So you just have to hit right colors which eclipse have..
Or you could write your own CTabFolderRenderer and set it to your CTabFolder instance.
EDIT
For Eclipse colors try
folder.setSelectionBackground(new Color[]{new Color(display, new RGB(242, 244, 247)), new Color(display, new RGB(157, 167, 195))}, new int[]{100}, true);
EDIT
Found the way how to do it correctly
folder.setSelectionBackground(new Color[]{display.getSystemColor(SWT.COLOR_TITLE_INACTIVE_BACKGROUND_GRADIENT), display.getSystemColor(SWT.COLOR_TITLE_BACKGROUND)}, new int[]{100}, true);

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I have a question concerning ctabfolders in eclipse rcp.
I created an e4 RCP app with a window comprising a stack part container, which contains a stack.
this stack contains 1 part. in this part, there is a ctabfolder and one ctabitem.
when I launch the app via the product file, I see this:
there are 2 problems:
1. the partCTabFolder appears at the top of the window, and I would like to remove it.
2. the test1 CTabItem is not selected; I disabled the flag "simple" with setSimple(false), so the CTabItem should be displayed with rounded borders, which is not the case until I click on it.
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I know that part classes are created lazily, but I think it does not apply here since the part is the only one and is displayed as soon as the window is run.
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#PostConstruct
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new Label(composite, SWT.NONE);
new Label(composite, SWT.NONE);
new Label(composite, SWT.NONE);
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}
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thank you
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