The default Combobox in Mac OS is as follows:
How can I change to following one?:
P.S. - The Combobox is created in JTable.
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1http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3954616/look-and-feel-in-java – mKorbel Aug 05 '11 at 15:10
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Check out the brilliant MacWidgets
Here are the key steps:
- Create a
JComboBoxwith the appropriate L&F. - Create a TableCellEditor with the comboBox, for example using
DefaultCellEditor - Set the editor on your JTable using
setDefaultEditor(...)
TableCellRenderer getDefaultRenderer(Class columnClass)
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+1 for MacWidgets, although I'm not sure a renderer alone in sufficient. – trashgod Aug 05 '11 at 15:51
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Hi, If I follow your step, it will create the first Combobox in my question. I need some way to get the second one. – Nick Aug 12 '11 at 13:19
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I would start looking into the L&F. I suspect it has two different looks based on the container... – Dilum Ranatunga Aug 12 '11 at 14:55
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One thing I should have made clear initially is that I want my Jcombobox to appear this way inside a jtable. The default look is very similar to a text cell inside a jtable, with the difference being that when you click the cell with the combobox a drop down arrow appears in the right hand side of the cell and clickable choices appear below. What I want is for the drop down arrow of the jcombobox to ALWAYS be visible. I know this is possible because I have seen examples of this in netbeans guibuilder properties panel. – Nick Aug 15 '11 at 13:41
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The default UI delegate for JComboBox on Mac OS X is com.apple.laf.AquaComboBoxUI. You can replace it with your own variation of BasicComboBoxUI. There's a related example here and a more complete example in the MacWidgets collection suggested by @Dilum.
