Change Look & Feel in open JFrame s & JDialog s

[Guest]

I have 3 open JFrame s and from a JDialog which is "Options" of my program,
I change Look & Feel from "Windows" to "Metal".

How can I change Look & Feel of opened JFrame s without .dispose() and
recreate?

thanks

 

[Andrew Thompson]

I have 3 open JFrame s ... (snip)

How can I change Look & Feel of opened JFrame s .. (snip)

<http://www.physci.org/test/lnf/>
Chase the first link to 'View _source_' for the applet code.
(The code runs as a frame as well.)

HTH

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[Andrew Thompson]

<http://www.physci.org/codes/javafaq.jsp#clj>

Ooops!
<http://www.physci.org/codes/javafaq.jsp#cljg>

 

[Babu Kalakrishnan]

I have 3 open JFrame s and from a JDialog which is "Options" of my program,
I change Look & Feel from "Windows" to "Metal".

How can I change Look & Feel of opened JFrame s without .dispose() and
recreate?

UIManager.setLookAndFeel("javax.swing.plaf.metal.MetalLookAndFeel");
SwingUtilities.updateComponentTreeUI(frame);
frame.pack(); // If necessary

The last 2 lines needs to be repeated for every Frame in your application.


BK

 

[G Winstanley]

I have 3 open JFrame s and from a JDialog which is "Options" of my program,
I change Look & Feel from "Windows" to "Metal".

How can I change Look & Feel of opened JFrame s without .dispose() and
recreate?

thanks

See the other people's posts. HOWEVER, I have encountered numerous problems
getting this to work reliably. Certain L&F switches do not work as expected,
not all widgets get changed, etc. Sun HIGHLY recommend that you do not allow
this in your applications due to the results being unpredictable. I have
since removed the capability from the application I have been writing, but I
leave an option to select the default L&F which takes effect at new launch
time.

Stan

 

[Andrew Thompson]

See the other people's posts. HOWEVER, I have encountered numerous problems
getting this to work reliably.

AFAIU, there is a known issue flipping from the Metal PLAF
to other PLAFs based on MetalTheme. The way to avoid this
is not offer the DefaultMetalTheme as an option.

I would be interested in seeing any SSCCE that can
reproducibly cause other problems.

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[G Winstanley]

AFAIU, there is a known issue flipping from the Metal PLAF
to other PLAFs based on MetalTheme. The way to avoid this
is not offer the DefaultMetalTheme as an option.

I would be interested in seeing any SSCCE that can
reproducibly cause other problems.

My bad experiences were primarily switching from Windows PLAF to Metal PLAF,
usually when the application was launched in Windows one and then an attempt
made to switch over to Metal. If Metal was initially active and I then
switched to Windows and back to Metal I generally encountered few problems.
That said, the exact component dimensions were slightly different in the
Windows PLAF if it had been switched to rather than launched that way. The
most obvious different component was the depth of JTable headers.

Stan