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Friday, September 11th 2009, 12:17am

Substance skins with Jabaco

Hello
With Substance skin engine, you can create very professional look of your application.

1.Download engine from https://substance.dev.java.net/ (download Substance 5.2 library)
2.Add to your CLASSPATH (F1 in Jabaco)
3.Add reference for UIManager and SwingUtilities
4.Add this code to Form_Load

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UIManager.setLookAndFeel ("org.jvnet.substance.skin.SubstanceMistAquaLookAndFeel")
   SwingUtilities.updateComponentTreeUI(Me)


That is all :)

Screenshots of skins can be found on https://substance.dev.java.net/learn.html

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Friday, September 11th 2009, 12:26am

cool man

it really looks cool

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Friday, September 11th 2009, 8:43am

Cool it would be good for my apps! :thumbsup:
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Friday, September 11th 2009, 4:04pm

Hi,
I tried to call the recommended methods in Form_Load and got the following error:

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org.jvnet.substance.api.UiThreadingViolationException: Component creation must be done on Event Dispatch Thread
at org.jvnet.substance.utils.SubstanceCoreUtilities.testComponentCreationThreadingViolation(SubstanceCoreUtilities.java:2368 )


To circumvent this problem, I created an asynchronous thread, but this hasn't helped either.

Google returns quite a few similar stories about Substance.
Any ideas how to move these calls into the "Event Dispatch Thread"?

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Friday, September 11th 2009, 4:19pm

The trick works with small example but not for my form which happens to have some 20 controls and usercontrols.
It might be a matter of timing ....

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Friday, September 11th 2009, 10:13pm

I tried with 20 or more controls, it partialy work.
ComboBox and RadioBox dont working

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Saturday, September 12th 2009, 4:27am

:D

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Wednesday, September 16th 2009, 9:34am

I got the same thing: 20 + controls and it doesn't work, the refresh also doesn't work.
With 20+ you refresh it or drag something on it, it works. If it can refresh, it would be good.

also, the 20 + controls might be 20 + same controls or usercontrols
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Wednesday, September 16th 2009, 8:14pm

Alternativly you can create your program normally and start it then with

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java -Dswing.systemlaf=org.jvnet.substance.skin.SubstanceMistAquaLookAndFeel -jar YourProgram.jar


But be sure, that you have copied before the Sunstance jar file in your JRE-ext directory.
I think its under C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\lib\ext
Otherwise Java can not find it. Then it helps also not to set it in the Classpath, because the "-D" flag have a higher priority.

Edit:
Some additional note:

That is, what I very often do, changing the LaF in this way.
For normal programs, which starts with the MetalLookAndFeel (which is the default Look And Feel) you can start it with

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java -Dswing.defaultlaf=com.sun.java.swing.plaf.motif.MotifLookAndFeel -jar YourProgram.jar

or if you want that LookAndFeel for all that programs, you can create in
C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\lib
the file "swing.propertied" and write in there
swing.defaultlaf=com.sun.java.swing.plaf.motif.MotifLookAndFeel
Additional possibilities for the file "swing.properties" you can find at
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/…o_use_undo.html

And if your Java program uses the System-LAF you can change it with

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java -Dswing.systemlaf=com.sun.java.swing.plaf.motif.MotifLookAndFeel -jar YourProgram.jar


Instead the MotifLookAndFeel you can choose the NimbusLookAndFeel or any other.

This post has been edited 3 times, last edit by "theuserbl" (Sep 16th 2009, 8:26pm)

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