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Questions tagged [look-and-feel]

Questions about the Look and Feel (LaF) of applications with a graphical user interface (GUI). This includes questions on how to achieve a certain appearance (such as the native OS style) or how to alter a component's behaviour.

Look-and-feel can refer to any visual user interface, including individual applications, the operating system itself, or web sites. The 'look' refers to the interface's style (colors, fonts, icons and even branding) and layout of components on the display. The 'feel' refers to how these components behave, especially to user input. This is also known as usability or accessibility.

See also:

Look and Feel - Wikipedia

How to Set the Look and Feel in Java

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Java Look and Feel (L&F)

I am developing a desktop application with Java Swing for my personal use.I am in need of some beautiful Look and Feel for my application. How can I do it using Java or a 3rd party API?
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How can I create a "modern looking" Java desktop application?

Similar questions to this are asked periodically, but many of these answers are outdated. I need to build a cross-platform desktop application in Java with a GUI of comparable quality to contemporary desktop apps. Swing is the default choice, but I…
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Trying to style SwingNodes in JavaFX with GTKLookAndFeel freezes application

We have a Java application that used Swing, but we are migrating it to JavaFX. Therefore, we wrap the old Swing code into SwingNodes and replace them step-by-step. Before migrating, the Swing application used…
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iTerm2 - hide split pane title bars?

After recent update of iTerm2 the split panes look different: This is how it looked before (some random image found on the Internet): Is there a way to get the original look back or do I have to get used to it? Edit: just to avoid confusion, what…
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Android layout examples that match "Metrics and Grids" recommendations

After trying to make sense of the Metrics and Grids page of the (fairly new) Android Design website, I gave up on a lot of things. So, basically, I'm trying to find the original layouts that are used in Android 4, so that I can apply the same…
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Please recommend pretty Java Swing components library

I am right now working on a job of retouching the user interface of a software which is coded in Java. The interface is now built using Swing. I am looking for a library of Java Swing components, which should look better than the original…
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How to show the hidden toolbar of Eclipse

Eclipse has a context menu item to hide the entire toolbar of RCP. Where is the corresponding menu item to show the hidden toolbar? I know it should be shown if using a new workspace. However I hope find the related feature in the GUI of eclipse.
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How to improve look and feel of JAVA swing GUI?

I am working on a project that uses Java Swing. The default look and feel of the Java Swing GUI is very boring. Is there any way I can use a better look and feel? Something like on web pages...
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Can we develop very good looking UI in swing and if not what are alternatives

In my current project we have to develop a good looking desktop based application in java. Currently, we have a very basic desktop application written in swing and team does not have good swing knowledge. Can we create a very good looking UI in…
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How to create a custom look and feel for Java Swing?

I want to create my own look and feel in Swing. Can anyone give me succinct knowledge about how to do this?
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How do I get the old colors and look & feel back in Eclipse 4.2?

I had been using Eclipse 3.x for a few years and while I had a few issues w.r.t. its stability and performance, I never had any particular annoyance with the UI itself... Now that the new and shiny Eclipse 4.2 is out of the oven, it feels more…
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How can I change the arrow style in a JComboBox

Let's say I want to use a custom image for the arrow in JComboBox, how can I do this? I understand it's possible using the synth xml files, or maybe even UIManager.put(...), but I don't know how. All I want to do at this time is change the arrow…
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Give Java application a Metro Look and Feel in Windows 8

I have already developed a Java application which is working well in Windows XP, Windows 7 & Windows 8 consumer preview. The application is developed using GWT, CSS3 with Spring framework,and built-in Jetty server which is used to launch the…
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Java Look and feel - how to break a dependency on sun.swing.SwingUtilities2

I am maintaining some code the implements a customized Look and Feel in Java. While doing a recent upgrade of Java version (for other reasons) I found that the Look and feel broke due to a field not found…
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JTextArea default font very small in Windows

I'm using platform look-and-fell and on Linux my JTextArea is pretty readable But on Windows it uses "Monospaced 9" and the text is very small. Why and what is the best way to fix that? Why default Windows look-and-fell uses such small font in…
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