custom round skin gui

Question

In looking for a starting place to how to create a round interface. I have tried looking into the docs and tried looking into other plugins for Eclipse. I\'m just starting t

Answer 1

Call the setOpacity method on your JFrame. More details here: http://java-demos.blogspot.com/2012/09/how-to-create-shaped-jframes-in-java.html

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JFrame frame = new JFrame();
frame.setUndecorated(true);
AWTUtilities.setWindowShape(frame, new Ellipse2D.Double(0, 0, 100, 100));

Not to be rude, but you really could have found this if you spent 5 minutes Googling or searching on Stack Overflow...

If you really want to learn Java GUI's, you should spend some time studying AWT, Swing, or JavaFX, the core Java libraries for doing GUI work, and basic objects like JFrame and JWindow, and creating menus, buttons, ActionListeners and layouts.