I have an already written Java Swing app (so no switching UI frameworks) that I would like to look at least decent using the GTKLookAndFeel. I've already accounted for things like font and component size differences across LookAndFeels, but one thing I can't figure out is why my popup menus have no borders at all. It appears they are u...
Is there a way to install themes on Windows CE 5. I want it to look similar to Windows Mobile. Any idea? ...
Ok, I know that Visual Studio ships with a few user interface icons but they are few and most of all, they are kinda outdated and don't fit well into Vista or Seven. I like pretty interfaces and I like interfaces where they fit and look part of the OS. One of the problems regarding this is the interface icons, I can't find good icons in...
Does anyone know how to have the MenuStrips to rendered with native Windows look and feel depending the OS version the user is using? The current renders don't do it... I'm currently using a third party control that can do it but uses MainMenu and ContextMenu instead of what I'm looking for, the MenuStrip... ...
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); ...
Since installing the new version of quaqua I have been having weird problems like text not displaying over my intro splash screen and the default java icon showing up on dialogs instead of mine. I was wondering if anyone knew an alternative to quaqua I could try for Mac LAF. ...
We are trying to get quaqua out of our application but we had been using a call to quaqua to set the font size to be smaller with a call like this: System.setProperty("Quaqua.sizeStyle", "small"); My question is there an easy to do the same sort of thing without using quaqua? Or does anyone know another good look and feel for os x? ...
I am using gvim in Windows and novice to it. I want to have a transparent background for my VI (in Windows) , like console which creates a transparent command prompt. ...
Is there a way to have a windows form app hosted in IE use the 'look-and-feel' of the current OS/browser, similar to how everything looks when the app is run in the debugger? For instance I'm debugging in VS2008 and it looks great, but when I view the app in IE7 or IE8 on Vista or Win7 all the controls look like Netscape navigator circa...
I have a simple-ish cell renderer which is composed of a few JLabels (the renderer itself extends JPanel) and I'm trying to get it to render sensibly in the Nimbus look and feel. Basically what is happening is that in the lighter rows (as Nimbus has alternate row coloring), my specific cell renderer is using the table background color (...
I asked this question about a problem I was seing with a cell renderer using the Nimbus look and feel and the issue has turned out to be possibly to do with Scala. Basically I have a cell renderer which extends Panel (as opposed to DefaultTableCellRenderer) and it is behaving oddly: it is not rendering the alternate row colors properly w...
I'm a Mac user, so I know that for Mac OS X, I'd like my games packaged up in a nice .app bundle (like Aquaria did, for example). But what is the standard on Windows? And what is the standard on Linux? I'm relatively unfamiliar with both, but from what I understand, there's no equivalent of a Mac application bundle on either. Do users t...
Does the text in Swing components have a default font? In particular, what about tab labels on JTabbedPanes? 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. ...
I've implemented some custom fields and would like to keep the look-and-feel consistent with the current Blackberry theme. So I would like the highlighting color of the fields to be consistent with the highlight color used throughout the BB apps. How can I get the this color? Edit: Apparently, there's no way to get those kinds of color...
I'm writing a custom dialog window to display the status of a long operation, and would like to use the little timer icon (the little square clock on OS >= 4.6) that's used in the BB native dialogs. How can I use this graphic within my dialog? I'm already familiar with layout managers and such, I just don't know where the bitmap is, or...
Hi, I want to change appearance of all common controls in my application. can I do it programmatically with an easy way. I have huge code base and I don't want to modify each and every resources. I prefer if I can inject DLL which change default look of windows common controls, which I fuse into window system while starting application...
Via this question, it would seem that normally you can't mix-and-match look and feels in the same swing app. However, we've been using groovy's swingbuilder to handle all of our GUI code, and groovy seems to do enough black magic that this seemed in the Realms of the Possible. Can swingbuilder set the LaF at, say, the Frame level? (Sp...
I have a Java application with a custom defined Look and Feel in which the user can switch between a light and a dark mode. One of the things we have is a right click popup menu that inherits from the JPopupMenu class. The first thing we add to the menu is a JLabel: add( new JLabel( "<html><i> " + field.desc + "</i><br/>field = " + fi...
I was wondering what was the look and feel used in the java application Violet UML Editor. It seem it name is "Blue Vista" but I can't find it on google. Pictures : ...
I have a problem with JTextField.requestFocus() behavior that appears to be different on Mac OS X. Here is my situation: I have a dialog with a JList and a JTextField. The user is supposed to write a boolean expression in the text field, and the list contains the names of all the variables that might be entered in the expression. Becau...