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Changing the default appearance of netbeans GUI controls

Hey I'm new to netbeans and I noticed a lot of applications (from textbooks) have a default style/appearance to their controls (buttons etc) as shown below.

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the appearance when I'm creating a GUI is just the standard windows xp or 7 button style. Is there a way to change this to the style shown in the image above?

Here is the appearance I am currently getting:

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Thanks in advance.

Solution

  • Yes, you can give Swing a Windows like look and feel with the following code:

    try{
    UIManager.setLookAndFeel("com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows.WindowsLookAndFeel");
}
catch(Exception e){
        System.out.println("UIManager Exception : "+e);
}