JFrame theme and appearance

Question

I have a swing application. Below is a small screenshot.

OS: Win 7

What is irritating is the theme. I have tried several other screens but they all have such appearance. Eclipse and Netbeans for example have a much better UI. The FileChooser and Frame is general is much pleasing. How do I have such a theme.

Thanks.

Jackjackadandy

Answer 1

Change the look and feel to the Windows one before creating anything UI-related in your program:

UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());

Malines

Make sure you put it BEFORE you create the JFrame. I have made this mistake many times. – Chromato

@Chromato you can call SwingUtilities.updateComponentTreeUI(frame) if the frame is already created. – Malines

Answer 2

Looks like you are using the Metal Look and Feel. Try using some other look and feel that might interest you.

Refer http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/lookandfeel/plaf.html, for more information.

Pyrogenous

Answer 3

This will give you everything you want to know

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/lookandfeel/plaf.html

UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName() will give you the most appropriate for the OS it's running on

Humbug

Answer 4

there is many look and feels packages like :

1)JTattoo

2)BlueLight

3)joxy

4)Nimrod

5)Oyoaha

6)TinyLaf

....etc

you have to read about previous types

Hyacinthe