Swing Pluggable Look

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Swing Pluggable Look Feel

• Standard PLAFs
• Metal The Java platform LF with Themes
• Windows
• Motif
• Some PLAF Libraries
• Kunststoff
• jGoodies
• SkinLF
• Compiere Looks

Free
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Swing PLAF Links (selection)

• Available JFC/Swing PLAFs
• http//www.javootoo.com
• http//www.incors.org (Kuststoff)
• http//www.jgoodies.com (jGoodies)
• http//www.l2fprod.com (SkinLF)
• http//www.themes.org (GTK Themes)
• http//www.compiere.org/looks/ (Compiere)
• Custom Look and Feel Example
• http//java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/sce
  (SAP)

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Using Switching LFs

• Change default PLAF
• In JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/swing.propertiesswing.def
  aultlaf org.compiere.plaf.CompiereLookAndFeel
  swing.installedlaf.Compiere.class
  org.compiere.plaf.CompiereLookAndFeel
  swing.installedlaf.Compiere.nameCompiere

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Using Switching LFs

• Setting a specific LF (in main method)
• UIManager.setLookAndFeel (new
  org.compiere.plaf.CompiereLookAndFeel())
• or
• CompierePLAF.setPLAF()
• After switching in a running application
• SwingUtilities.updateComponentTreeUI(comp)
• Using your defined LF at startup
• java -cp CompiereLooks.jarSwingSet2.jar
  org.compiere.plaf.CompierePLAF SwingSet2

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Swing PLAF UI Delegates
JCheckBox
updateUI() setUI (UIManager.getUI(this))
setUI(ui) print()
Metal
Windows
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Your own LookAndFeel class
public class MyLookAndFeel extends
MetalLookAndFeel void initClassDefaults
(UIDefaults table) table.put(CheckBoxU
I, MyCheckBoxUI) void
initSystemColorDefaults (UIDefaults table)
table.put("textHighlight", Color.yellow)

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Compiere LF
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JGoodies LF
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Other GUI Java Options

• SWT - Eclipse
• http//www.eclipse.org
• Alternative to Swing
• Zaval - LwVCL
• http//www.zaval.org
• GUI for embedded, standalone and applets, small
  footprint
• Thinlets
• http//www.thinlets.com
• A widget toolkit that uses XML definition files
  to create the screens instead of Java code.
• SwiXML
• http//www.swixml.org
• A widget toolkit that uses XML definition files
  to create the screens instead of Java code.