Change the look and feel of a NetBeans look and feel

Question

I am trying to make a simple jFrame for my game in NetBeans, and I've gone to many pages on Stack Overflow and none of the solutions worked, and I've also gone into the Java Article on it. The Java article said that changing the look and feel after adding elements could not work, so I created a new frame to try it out, but it still didn't work. The method everyone is using is going into the look and feel section of the frame source code, and changing

try {
        for (javax.swing.UIManager.LookAndFeelInfo info : javax.swing.UIManager.getInstalledLookAndFeels()) {
            if ("Windows".equals(info.getName())) {
                javax.swing.UIManager.setLookAndFeel(info.getClassName());
                break;
            }
        }

the "Nimbus".equals(info.getName()); to whatever feel you want, and I've changed mine to windows. This still didn't work. Does anyone know how I could fix/solve this?

what exactly you are trying to do? can you explain it clearly. — JAMSHAID, Jul 24 '18 at 05:08
for now, i am just creating a layout and set the look and feel to windows — Anonymous, Jul 24 '18 at 05:30

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 24 '18 at 11:18

if you are trying to set WindowsLookAndFeel then simply replace

try {
    for (javax.swing.UIManager.LookAndFeelInfo info :     javax.swing.UIManager.getInstalledLookAndFeels()) {
        if ("Windows".equals(info.getName())) {
            javax.swing.UIManager.setLookAndFeel(info.getClassName());
            break;
        }
    }

by

 try {
      UIManager.setLookAndFeel("com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows.WindowsLookAndFeel");
    }

and for more changes relevant to other platforms, follow the pattern given in the image below. for further details visit this link.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 24 '18 at 11:25

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info.getName().contains("Windows") and this best is done already in the main, before GUI elements are created. Otherwise you need to notify the GUI hierarchy for a new design.

answered Jul 24 '18 at 11:25

Joop Eggen

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