LooK And Feel From Jide

[RajaRajeswari_V]

Hi,

In my application, earlier when we were using JDK 1.5 we had options for changing theme like we had options to change the look And Feel to Eclipse, Office, Xerto etc.
We did this in the following way
if(newTheme.equalsIgnoreCase("Eclipse"))
{
LookAndFeelFactory.installJideExtension(LookAndFeelFactory.ECLIPSE_STYLE);
LookAndFeelFactory.setDefaultStyle(LookAndFeelFactory.ECLIPSE_STYLE);
try
{
UIManager.setLookAndFeel(EclipseWindowsLookAndFeel.class.getName());
}
catch (Exception e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
This was with old jars of Jide.Now i am using evaluation version of Jide.
Looking at the jide documentation in the old jars, now im trying to do it this way

if(newTheme.equalsIgnoreCase("Eclipse"))
{
LookAndFeelFactory.installJideExtension(LookAndFeelFactory.ECLIPSE_STYLE);
LookAndFeelFactory.setDefaultStyle(LookAndFeelFactory.ECLIPSE_STYLE);
try
{
UIManager.setLookAndFeel("com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows.WindowsLookAndFeel");
}
catch (Exception e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
}

But some how it is not working as expected. Please advice

[JIDE Support]

The correct way is

LookAndFeelFactory.setDefaultStyle(LookAndFeelFactory.ECLIPSE_STYLE);
UIManager.setLookAndFeel("com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows.WindowsLookAndFeel");

or

UIManager.setLookAndFeel("com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows.WindowsLookAndFeel");
LookAndFeelFactory.installJideExtension(LookAndFeelFactory.ECLIPSE_STYLE);

The order matters. If you know when UIManager.setLookAndFeel is called, the second way is preferred. If you have other code calling UIManager.setLookAndFeel that you don't have control, use the first way.

Thanks,