Fun with Swing Look & Feels

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The Swing library uses the concept of "Plugable Look & Feels" to enable an application written using Swing to look the same as a native application on any operating system. When a Swing application starts, it will display its components using the default Look & Feel (which is specified in the JDK's properties file).

While you are developing your applications using Simplicity Professional, you can view how your application will look using any of the installed Look & Feels. On most platform, you should have at least the 'Metal', 'CDE/Motif', and "Windows' Look and Feel installed, and you may have others as well.

1. In the Composer, open the 'Parts' menu, and the open the 'Swing Look & Feel' cascading menu.
2. Select 'CDE/Motif'. The entire application repaints itself to look as it might appear on a Unix or Linux platform.
3. Try selecting the other Look & Feels to see the different appearances.