look-and-feel

I use Nimbus Look and Feel in a project. However, although every GUI JComponent have a Look and Feel of Nimbus, JFrame always have Windows Look and Feel. How can JFrame have Nimbus Look And Feel? Edit: Operating System : Windows XP Marek Sebera Try using this: JFrame.setDefaultLookAndFeelDecorated(true); //before creating JFrames For more info., see How to Set the Look and Feel in the tutorial. import javax.swing.*; class FrameLook { public static void showFrame(String plaf) { try { UIManager.setLookAndFeel(plaf); } catch(Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } JFrame f = new JFrame(plaf); f

I tried out the function of the JProgressBar in Java. But there is a problem I couldn't solve: When I set the minimum to zero, the maximum value to 100 and the current value to 6 then nothing will be displayed. The progress bar is empty. If I put 7 as current value then it works. It seems to be a problem with any empty border or other space. The problem occurs with Windows 7 and only if the UIManager is set to SystemLookAndFeel. Does anyone knows this problem and has a solution for this? Below is my code: package lab; import java.awt.FlowLayout; import javax.swing.JDialog; import javax.swing

I have a JFileChooser in a JFrame . I've added an ActionListener to the JFileChooser so that the "Cancel" button works when clicked. I can also tab to the "Cancel" button, but when I then hit the "Enter" key, nothing happens (i.e., the ActionListener isn't called with the event command JFileChooser.CANCEL_SELECTION ). What must I do with the JFileChooser so that hitting the "Enter" key when on the "Cancel" button is equivalent to clicking on the "Cancel" button? Here's a simple example of the (mis)behavior I'm seeing: import java.awt.event.ActionEvent; import java.awt.event.ActionListener;

Does the text in Swing components have a default font? In particular, what about tab labels on JTabbedPane s? I'm working on a mock-up of a GUI made with Swing and want it to blend it with a screen image I grabbed of a Swing app. Reverend Gonzo It depends on the Look and Feel. If it's an application you've written, get the values from UIManager.getDefaults().getFont("TabbedPane.font") The UIManager Defaults shows what the values are for all properties for all components (including "TabbedPane.font"). Based on the answer of Reverend Gonzo, this piece of code lets you know what keys are in the

I'm working on an open-source Java Web Start application, and I'd like to give it a consistent theme across platforms. Metal is totally ugly, and I'm not particularly happy with Substance (esp. performance). What are the best Swing Look&Feel options out there today? I like the 'Nimbus Look&Feel' (2nd image) introduced in Java 6 Update 10 very much and it is contained in SUN's vanilla J2SE of J6u10 and later by default! Another advantage is, that it is painted entirely using Java 2d which makes it fast and rederable at all resolutions. Check out JGoodies , its the de facto standard place to

I noticed that Metal L&F doesn't support certain arrow characters from Unicode, while Nimbus and GTK L&Fs do support them. Unsupported characters are just displayed as: ... Can I either look up (manually), which L&F supports which Unicode chars, or find it out at runtime? EDIT: Or, should it only depend on the L&F's default font, my question perhaps should be: "how do I find out, which Java font supports which Unicode characters?" You can use the canDisplay method to test if a java.awt.Font object can display a given character. You can typically get the font from GUI components using the