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Bug 38043 - Setting Look&Feel for designed forms
Summary: Setting Look&Feel for designed forms
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: guibuilder
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Code (show other bugs)
Version: 3.x
Hardware: All All
: P2 blocker with 3 votes (vote)
Assignee: issues@guibuilder
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Keywords:
: 2195 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2003-12-12 10:14 UTC by Tomas Pavek
Modified: 2008-04-29 15:38 UTC (History)
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Description Tomas Pavek 2003-12-12 10:14:45 UTC 
Now when the IDE does not run in the default
look&feel, the user should have an easy way to
create forms that are run with the same look and
feel. Applies on JFrame and JApplet only.
Comment 1 Tomas Pavek 2004-02-24 08:43:59 UTC 
As the minimum, the form editor should allow the user to specify the
look&feel of created form - and appropriate code would be generated.
The form editor could by default choose the same look&feel as the IDE
run with. Note this is just about the generated code, the designed
form would always be seen in the look&feel of the IDE (as it running
in the same JVM).

As the second step, the form editor could allow also to switch the
designed form to specified look&feel visually - even if it is
different from the default (IDE's) one. Than there would be the
desired congruence of the designed and executed form, which would
eliminate problems like issue 40359. This would apply on all types of
forms, not only JFrame and JApplet.
Comment 2 Tomas Pavek 2004-03-25 09:33:33 UTC 
*** Issue 41315 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 3 Tomas Pavek 2004-03-25 09:38:17 UTC 
*** Issue 2195 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 4 Milan Kubec 2005-01-18 11:24:09 UTC 
This would really help when working with different L&Fs. Please
re-consider Target Milestone.

Also consider scanning for custom L&F implementations on project
classpath.
Comment 5 coldrick 2005-07-11 23:48:50 UTC 
It would also be useful to be able to dynamically change the L&F for the form
preview inside the editor
Comment 6 kate 2008-04-29 15:38:06 UTC 
It seems that this has been already implemented. 
Now, you can choose from various L&Fs in Preview Design when designing a form. 
(tested for 6.1).