Change look and feel of your jframe(Java)

Today we will see how change "Look and feel of your application"

Normally running jframe made by NetBeans, look of jframe called "Nimbus".

It is default previwe comes with NetBeans.

Following image is example for look of "Nimbus".

We can change it with NetBeans to a 5 types.

• Metal
• Nimbus
• CDE/Motif
• Windows
• Windows Classic

You can test the preview before change it by following steps.

1. Right click on your jframe
2. Go to Preview Design
3. Choose Metal,Windows or somthing

4. jframe will show how it look like

Now we will see how change this permanently

1. Go to your source code

2. Go to botom of your code and find the main method of your codes

3. In this picture you can see code like this /*Set the Nimbus look the form*/
4. Right side of this code can you see some you can see "+" mark. Click it and extract code there.

5. You can see here it default set as Nimbus
6. To change that simply delete Nimbus and change it to your choice to a Windows,etc.
7. Following images show you change of this 5 types

Metal



Nimbus



CDE/Motif



Windows



Windows Classic