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I want to design my GUI app's Top-level window to be a professional looking, to give you an example of what i am talking about, check the image attached with this post Sample GUI design

If there is a tutorial available that will be great

Thanks

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  • Can you explain why you think that looks professional and why what you are normally making is not? – unholysampler Feb 09 '12 at 20:03
  • If you can define "professional looking", then maybe someone can answer... – DNA Feb 09 '12 at 20:23
  • I don't want the plain looking jframe like this http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/7677/plainjframe.png, a tutorial on how to design a frame similar to the one i gave in the question will be nice – skystar7 Feb 09 '12 at 20:24
  • good code equals good GUI and excelent code sometimes excelent GUI, without Custom Look&Feel or Translucency, everything is about used LayoutManagers – mKorbel Feb 09 '12 at 20:58

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One way is to write a custom Look-And-Feel.

If that looks like too much work, the there are various colour and icon settings that can be tweaked - see the javadoc and the Swing Tutorial.

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