How to set default font for an application

[Greg Jablonski]

Hi all,

I am creating application GUI in Swing but I have trouble with setting
default font for all buttons, labels etc. I tried this:

MetalLookAndFeel metalLook = (MetalLookAndFeel) UIManager.getLookAndFeel();
metalLook.getControlTextFont().deriveFont(Font.PLAIN);

UIManager.setLookAndFeel(metalLook);

but this didn't work. Any suggestions will be helpful.

Thanks
Greg J.

[Linda Radecke]

Greg Jablonski escribió:

Hi!

> MetalLookAndFeel metalLook = (MetalLookAndFeel) UIManager.getLookAndFeel();
> metalLook.getControlTextFont().deriveFont(Font.PLAIN);
>
> UIManager.setLookAndFeel(metalLook);

To set the font for all your components you can do that, for instance, as
follows :

UIManager.put("myComponent.font",new Font("Serif",Font.ITALIC,12));

The Metal Look & Feel is already set per default, so you don't
have to determine this explicitely, but you can do that as follows :

try {
UIManager.setLookAndFeel(
UIManager.getCrossPlatformLookAndFeelClassName());
} catch (Exception e) { }

Linda
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[Christian Kaufhold]

Linda Radecke <li...@radecke.ch> wrote:

> Greg Jablonski escribió:

>> MetalLookAndFeel metalLook = (MetalLookAndFeel) UIManager.getLookAndFeel();
>> metalLook.getControlTextFont().deriveFont(Font.PLAIN);

That derives a Font and immediately throws it away.

>>
>> UIManager.setLookAndFeel(metalLook);

That is a no-op. The metalLook is already set.

There are no public setters for these properties. I would investigate
how easy it is to write a custom theme and then set that on the LAF
(This is Metal-specific).

Most stuff is hard-coded in the LAFs and cannot be be easily glo-
bally substituted.

> To set the font for all your components you can do that, for instance, as
> follows :

> UIManager.put("myComponent.font",new Font("Serif",Font.ITALIC,12));

> The Metal Look & Feel is already set per default, so you don't
> have to determine this explicitely, but you can do that as follows :

> try {
> UIManager.setLookAndFeel(
> UIManager.getCrossPlatformLookAndFeelClassName());
> } catch (Exception e) { }

I always wonder why you want to hardcode that. Customizing the default
look and feel should rather be done in a property file:

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/misc/plaf.html

Christian
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Et einz'je wat ich wirklich weiß, ess, wo ich hinjehühr. Nöher zu mir

[Linda Radecke]

Christian Kaufhold escribió:

> I always wonder why you want to hardcode that. Customizing the default
> look and feel should rather be done in a property file:
>
> http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/misc/plaf.html

Yes, of course, you're right

Linda :-)

[Gamma]

Greg Jablonski <gr...@dcit.com> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I am creating application GUI in Swing but I have trouble with setting
>default font for all buttons, labels etc.

This is probably not the "right" way to do it, but it appears to work
in the app I'm developing.

The idea here is to work solely off of the UIDefaults. The code takes
everything in the defaults that looks like a font, and replaces it
with the font I chose.

/** Sets many UI fonts to a FontUIResource with the given name,
* style, and point size. */
public static void setUIFont (String name, int style, int size)
{
setUIFont (new FontUIResource(name, style, size));
}

/** Sets all UI fonts to the given FontUIResource. */
public static void setUIFont (FontUIResource f)
{
Enumeration keys = UIManager.getDefaults().keys();
while (keys.hasMoreElements()) {
Object key = keys.nextElement();
Object value = UIManager.get (key);
if (value instanceof FontUIResource)
UIManager.put (key, f);
}
}

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