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Implement Shadow for JPopupMenu in Synth Look And Feel

In EaSynth
look and feel, you can see the shadow effect of JPopupMenu:

Customize Renderer of JComboBox in Synth Look And Feel

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.

Style Binding in Synth Look And Feel

The style binding mechanism is another great feature of Synth
look and feel.

Pack and Deliver Synth Based Look And Feel

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.

Pass Parameters to Painters of Synth Look And Feel

Synth look and feel allow us to implement our own painter classes to render
the components, that is very good since we can draw anything in our painter
class.

Embedded Objects in Synth Look And Feel

As we know, Synth look and feel can be customized with an XML file which satisfies
the Synth
XML format. After we go through the document, we can conclude that the type
of property in the XML can be one of the following:

Change the Tab Size of JTabbedPane

The JTabbedPane class has not provided an API to set the tab size, but sometimes
we do need this, we can find some ways to work arround.

First of all I create a JTabbedPane component with four tabs.

Integrate Your UI Class into Synth Look And Feel

Several years ago, when we talk about designing look and feel, we know it is about implementing different UI classes for different components.