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Changing Swing progress bar look and feel

I keep trying to chang the UIManager to make these stupid looking green squares go away. how do i change the look and feel of this to the user? Is it system dependent? Someone else who was compiling my code had a constant gradient. Ideally, it would just be a solid square, as opposed to smaller blocks.

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Solution

  • Have you tried setting it to the system's (user's) look and feel?

    The easiest way to set the look and feel is by launching the GUI after calling:

    try
{
    UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());
}
catch (Exception e)
{
    // ...
}

    With that said, the above appears to be the Windows XP theme and may indeed be the system (user) theme. I generally stay away from custom themes in GUIs unless there is a very good reason (e.g., customer/user requirement).

    That is to say, the above code makes it system dependent, which is good because it matches the user's expecations.