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Jesus. definitely looks like a swing app
by des429 9y ago
Jesus. definitely looks like a swing app
- egocentric 9y agoDefinitely got that swing feeling to it :) Is there any way to customize the theme? I'd love something that's more clean and looks more modern.
- westoncb 9y agoThe only way is to change the Look and Feel, and unfortunately I think 'Nimbus' (which I show in one of the screenshots) is the most modern looking of the built-in Look and Feels. There may be some decent 3rd party options though... Like whatever IntelliJ is using.
- vturner 9y agoNot true, you can get the platform feel easily. I've seen swing do Windows XP through 7 easily. Never tried 10 yet.
- westoncb 9y agoI tried using the platform look and feel on macOS, but it gives a number of important elements tiny heights, including comments, making them unreadable. I'm sure there's a fix but I haven't looked into it.
- vturner 9y agoAh, maybe it's been abandoned for JavaFX as others have pointed out?
- daenney 9y agoYou can get a bit closer to native feel with JavaFX. It's still not there but it at least the default Moderna theme doesn't rock the boat like Swing does. Thankfully JavaFX is pretty easy to customise, it's roughly writing CSS, and there's a few high quality themes out there. Take a look at JFoeniX[0] for example for a material design inspired look. [0]: https://github.com/jfoenixadmin/JFoenix https://github.com/jfoenixadmin/JFoenix
- pjmlp 9y agoYes, there are several ways to custom paint, hence why there were several companies selling components like JGoodies. The problem is that most devs don't bother to read the Sun tutorials and respective UI/UX blogs on java.net, or books like "Filthy Rich Clients".