look-and-feel

I am trying to switch from using a JFileChooser to a FileDialog when my app is being run on a mac so that it will use the OS X file chooser. So far I have the following code: FileDialog fd = new FileDialog(this); fd.setDirectory(_projectsBaseDir.getPath()); fd.setLocation(50,50); fd.setFile(?); fd.setVisible(true); File selectedFile = new File(fd.getFile()); What would I put in for the question ? so that my file chooser would allow any directory to be the input for file chooser (the method that follows already checks to make sure that the directory is the right kind of directory I just want to

How can I set custom background color for JMenuBar and JMenu objects inside it? I tried .setBackgroundColor and it does not work! D180 Create a new class that extends JMenuBar : public class BackgroundMenuBar extends JMenuBar { Color bgColor=Color.WHITE; public void setColor(Color color) { bgColor=color; } @Override protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) { super.paintComponent(g); Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D) g; g2d.setColor(bgColor); g2d.fillRect(0, 0, getWidth() - 1, getHeight() - 1); } } Now you use this class instead of JMenuBar and set the background color with setColor() . You would

I am working on a project that uses Java Swing. The default look and feel of the Java Swing GUI is very boring. Is there any way I can use a better look and feel? Something like on web pages... Frederik Wordenskjold You can set the look and feel to reflect the platform: try { UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName()); } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } If this is not nice enough for you, take a look at SWT for Eclipse . Look at the Java tutorial for setting the look and feel . In addition to those mentioned there, recent Java 6 releases also include the

The problem with Java Swing is the look and feels (Metal, Nimbus, GTK...), the worst out there compared to SWT, Windows, Mac and Gnome Tool Kit, and getting good looking widgets is utopist, yet I am asking the question though. I need to know if there is a possibility to tweak a JButton to look like a default GTK button. Otherwise, can we give the JButton text a style (a shadow for example)? public class myTweakedButton extends JButton { // Override style attributes here. } Here is the style applied by GTK to the button widget: style "button" { xthickness = 3 ythickness = 3 bg[NORMAL] = shade

Can anyone explain why Nimbius treats the setOpaque() differently than other java LaF's. Its breaking my code because components that are normally transparent no longer are. EDIT: The problem seems to only deal with JTextAreas (which is what I need) or similar components. EDIT EDIT: This is a screen of the actual application. When applying trashgod's solution, the background still does not show through. EDIT EDIT EDIT: I tried trashgod's suggestion to override the paint(). I toiled with this for hours, and could not get it to work. I was able to get the background to show through, but the