I'm learning about making GUI using swing at the moment, and am getting frustrated trying to make a GUI for my application and making my own custom Look and Feel, using images. I have a Jframe which has a JPanel inside it(which is my application) I know how to add JmenuBar however i'm having trouble loading images to change the look and feel.
I'm trying to change the exit button, window button, and fullscreenbutton to image files and change the window bar of the application also.
Here is an example of what i'd like it to look like:
Any help on the subject would be most appreciated.
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I am using JTabbedpane with a JPanel tabbed and all the components inside the panel are shown in the picture below:
This was, what I expected:
As given in below pic, the tabbed pane/panel is cropped, hence the buttons are not visible as designed in NetBeans.
This is, what I am getting:
Even when the GUI windows is maximized, it is still cropped as shown in below pic
Still looks same after maximizing the windows.
There's no additional code, I've written in GUI source code. And yet I am facing the issue.
I have a question regarding JScrollPane.
I am making a java app in NetBeans with swing and I am using few Jlists. Two of them, have many items and a scrollbar appears to the right side.
When I edit the app the scrollbar looks the way I want, however when I run the app the design changes. The image in the link below shows what I mean.
How can I use the scrollbar design of netbeans look when I run the app?
scrollbar image
Thank you in advance!
You need to set a look and feel.
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/lookandfeel/plaf.html
I've set my program to appear in the system tray by doing what Oracle told to do. My first question is about the icon. I have a lot of programs in the system tray and mine is hidden. Can I make it to show in the bar without needing to click the arrow in the tray?
I also figured out that I can display a message by calling trayIcon.displayMessage(title, content, icon). I wonder if I can change the outlook of the balloon in the way Skype has done it.
Or do I need to use someting else do display a message? It should appear always in the front of all the applications and it shouldn't hinder other applications. For example if the user is playing a game, the information dialog shouldn't steal the focus from mouse and keyboard.
No you cant change the style of the baloon using the java systray mechanism. Skype doesnt use the java mechanism to show the systray. It is the systems task to style and display the baloon.
To show your icon, it is a windows configuration - when you click the arrow, there is a "customize" link, where you can configure which icons are displayed.
If you want to influence the style of the window, you need to implement your custom Frame that feels like and is positioned like a systray info window. And you would not use the Tray classes.
Concerning your question regarding skinning. The SystemTray displayMessage balloon can not be customized in any way.
I have written a swing application in Java and want to display the logo of the application at program start-up for a couple of seconds before the actual program GUI appears. How do you think I can do this in swing?
A built-in Splash-Screen Functionality was added in Java SE 6, take a look here .
You can use SplashScreen: SplashScreen.getSplashScreen().setImageURL(imageURL)
If it does not meet your requirements for some reason you can either create instance of java.awt.Window or javax.swing.JWindow and put image at the middle of the window. Use Timer to disappear this window after specific timeout.
You can also use Frame or JFrame and call its f.setUndecorated(false)
How can I show common GUI elements such as :
Textbox
Button
Radios/Dropdowns
Labels
etc in a java applet which would be run from a web browser?
This applet tutorial starts from the beginning, and covers GUI components.
There are plenty of other applet tutorials around of course, almost all of which will cover GUI work.
JApplet and JFrame both extend Container, so you just set the layout and add the components like you would in any other Swing GUI.