Blog Archive for xuanyun during February 2009
Customizing the JComboBox style in Synth look and feel is a little complex,
I can write a long article for it, but I don't want to be too tired, so please
let me share my experience piece by piece. Today let's see how to customize
the cell renderer for drop-down list in JComboBox.
Can we just do nothing and let the Synth look and feel to handle it in default
way? Unfortunately it does...
The style binding mechanism is another great feature of Synth
look and feel. By using style binding, you can define several button styles
within the same look and feel (one as default button style and the others are
candidates), the final user can decide which style can be applied on which button.
How could Synth achieve this? The answer is hidden in the bind
node in XML. Let's make...
If you want to deliver your Synth based look and feel, packaging it as a jar
file will be a good idea. There are different structures for different look
and feel packages, here I will introduce the one from EaSynth
look and feel.
To ease the usage of the new look and feel, it is better to create a new look
and feel class, which is extended from javax.swing.plaf.synth.SynthLookAndFeel...
