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From: Lew on 15 Feb 2010 12:52
RedGrittyBrick wrote:
> If I remember correctly, Look & Feel has to be applied before any GUI
> code runs.

Not true, according to
<http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/swing/UIManager.html>
> Once the look and feel has been changed it is imperative
> to invoke updateUI on all JComponents. The method
> SwingUtilities.updateComponentTreeUI(java.awt.Component)
> makes it easy to apply updateUI to a containment hierarchy.
> Refer to it for details. The exact behavior of not invoking
> updateUI after changing the look and feel is unspecified.
> It is very possible to receive unexpected exceptions,
> painting problems, or worse.

See
<http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/swing/SwingUtilities.html#updateComponentTreeUI(java.awt.Component)>

--
Lew
From: RedGrittyBrick on 15 Feb 2010 12:54
On 15/02/2010 17:52, Lew wrote:
> RedGrittyBrick wrote:
>> If I remember correctly, Look & Feel has to be applied before any GUI
>> code runs.
>
> Not true, according to
> <http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/swing/UIManager.html>
>> Once the look and feel has been changed it is imperative to invoke
>> updateUI on all JComponents. The method
>> SwingUtilities.updateComponentTreeUI(java.awt.Component) makes it easy
>> to apply updateUI to a containment hierarchy. Refer to it for details.
>> The exact behavior of not invoking updateUI after changing the look
>> and feel is unspecified. It is very possible to receive unexpected
>> exceptions, painting problems, or worse.
>
> See
> <http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/swing/SwingUtilities.html#updateComponentTreeUI(java.awt.Component)>
>
>

Thanks for the correction.

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RGB
From: Amr on 15 Feb 2010 13:00
On Feb 15, 10:43 pm, RedGrittyBrick <RedGrittyBr...(a)spamweary.invalid>
wrote:
>
>
> Have a look at my simple example in an earlier reply.

hi,
if you don't mind can you please give me the link for the thread you
are referring to.
i couldn't find which thread you are referring.
thanks a lot.
From: Amr on 15 Feb 2010 13:08
thank you all,
the program somewhat working now after making some changes from the
given suggestion.
i have to go through the suggestions again to see how can i optimize.
thank you very much.


import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import net.miginfocom.swing.MigLayout;

/**
*
* @author arshad
*/
public class AL2 extends JFrame implements ActionListener{


JTextField countText=new JTextField(20);
JButton button=new JButton("Click to increment");
private int numClicks=0;

public AL2(){

super();
themes();


// Dimension
d=java.awt.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize();
// setSize(d);
JPanel pane=new JPanel(new MigLayout("Wrap 1"));
button.addActionListener(this);
pane.add(countText);
pane.add(button);
add(pane);

setVisible(true);
pack();

}

public void themes(){

try{UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());
SwingUtilities.updateComponentTreeUI(this);}catch (Exception e)
{
System.out.println("errror in applying the theme");
}
}

public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
numClicks++;
countText.setText("Button CLicked"+numClicks+"Times");
}



public static void main(String arg[]){

AL2 a=new AL2();
}



}


PS: is there any way in this group that each and every mail lands in
my email box, so that i can reply from there itself without coming to
the webpage?
(i don't like the one or two emails per day. i can't wait untill the
end of the day to recieve the mail)
thank you :)
From: markspace on 15 Feb 2010 15:02
Amr wrote:

> PS: is there any way in this group that each and every mail lands in
> my email box, so that i can reply from there itself without coming to
> the webpage?


Thunderbird (from Mozilla.com) will read newsgroups, as will most other
email readers. I use www.eternal-september.org as the new feed since
ATT recently discontinued support for newsgroups.

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