Look and Feel

[Andy Rayner]

Hello i am trying to change the look and feel or the program by using a combo box, when i get the selected item it doesnt update the frame. here is my code

  
combo.addItem("Windows");
combo.addItem("Metal");
combo.addItem("GTK+");
combo.addItem("CDE/Motif");  
combo.addActionListener(
new ActionListener() {
                public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
                {
       if(combo.getSelectedItem().equals("Windows"))
{
        try
   {
   UIManager.setLookAndFeel("com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows.WindowsLookAndFeel");
}
 catch (Exception ex)
  {
   System.out.println("Failed loading L&F: ");
   System.out.println(ex);
   };              
}

if(combo.getSelectedItem().equals("Metal"))
{
try
   {
   UIManager.setLookAndFeel("javax.swing.plaf.metal.MetalLookAndFeel");

   }
   catch (Exception ex)
   {
   System.out.println("Failed loading L&F: ");
   System.out.println(ex);
   };              
}

if(combo.getSelectedItem().equals("GTK+"))
{
try
   {
   UIManager.setLookAndFeel("com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel");

   }
   catch (Exception ex)
   {
   System.out.println("Failed loading L&F: ");
   System.out.println(ex);
   };              
}

if(combo.getSelectedItem().equals("CDE/Motif"))
{
try
   {
   UIManager.setLookAndFeel("com.sun.java.swing.plaf.motif.MotifLookAndFeel");

   }
   catch (Exception ex)
   {
   System.out.println("Failed loading L&F: ");
   System.out.println(ex);
   };              
}

}
               
               });
 

I tried using

SwingUtilities.updateComponentTreeUI(this); 
pack();

but this give me the error message:

viewClass.java:104: updateComponentTreeUI(java.awt.Component) in javax.swing.SwingUtilities cannot be applied to (<anonymous java.awt.event.ActionListener>
SwingUtilities.updateComponentTreeUI(this);

also the GTK one seems to be incorrected have i got the right address??

Regards
Andy
[ March 06, 2005: Message edited by: Andy Rayner ]

[Igor Stojanovic]

Hi,

download aplication fromlink and look how to use source code for aplication.



kind regards
Igor
[ March 07, 2005: Message edited by: Igor Stojanovic ]