Re: setLookAndFeel problem

From:
Amr <fromwindowstolinux@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.gui
Date:
Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:22:41 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<bbdb0fe3-2bee-4eeb-99cf-e7edc788de67@f8g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>
On Feb 15, 9:02 pm, "John B. Matthews" <nos...@nospam.invalid> wrote:

I don't know how much "much" means, but I've become comfortable using
IDEs like NetBeans or Eclipse to re-factor existing code.


me too using netbeans.
and another thing.

for this code, which extends JFrame, the lookandfeel works.
(contradicting Andrew Thompson's statement)

import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
/**
 *
 * @author arshad
 */
public class ProgressMonitor extends JFrame{

    JProgressBar current;
    JTextArea out;
    JButton find;
    Thread runner;
    int num=0;

    public ProgressMonitor() {

        super("Progress Monitor");
        Dimension
d=java.awt.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize();
        setSize(d);
        setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        setLookAndFeel();

// setSize(205,68);
        setLayout(new FlowLayout());
        current=new JProgressBar(0,2000);
        current.setValue(0);
        current.setStringPainted(true);
        JLabel label=new JLabel("You have been fooled!, Your machine
is being formatted");
        JPanel panel=new JPanel();

// panel.add(sld);

        panel.add(label);
        panel.add(current);
        add(panel);
        setVisible(true);
        ///add(current);

// pack();

    }

    private void setLookAndFeel(){
        try{
 
UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());
            SwingUtilities.updateComponentTreeUI(this);
        }catch(Exception e){
            System.out.println("errorrrr");
        }
    }

    public void iterate(){
        while(num<2000){
            current.setValue(num);
            try{
                Thread.sleep(1000);
            }catch(InterruptedException e){}
            num+=95;

        }

    }

public static void main(String arg[]){
    ProgressMonitor frame=new ProgressMonitor();
    frame.setVisible(true);
    frame.iterate();

}
}

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