Article:		Make Your Swing App Go Native, Part 1
Subject:		Great article but...
Date:		2003-12-20 10:50:09
From:		tommi_kuenneth
Response to: Great article but...
You are certainly right, it would be really good if Sun provided a standard dialog to modify such settings. The control panel applet (of the Java plugin) in the Windows version of JDK/JRE seems to be hard-coded to use Metal. At least, modifying the swing.properties file or setting the property as a command line parameter seems to have no effect. Maybe Sun could think about that, too (if this is really the case). BTW, I would be quite happy to hear that my assumption is wrong. :-) My small LAF setter is happily running with any LAF I could get my hands on. :-) It uses only swing components. The JDK 1.4.x release notes mentinoed some aspects of GTK themes. If I am not mistaking the following file should contain them: docs/guide/swing/1.4/Post1.4.html (the complete JDK documentation) Regards Thomas PS I am really looking forward to read the second part of your series.