Jesus. definitely looks like a swing app

keleftheriou · on Oct 7, 2017

Definitely got that swing feeling to it :)

Is there any way to customize the theme? I'd love something that's more clean and looks more modern.

daenney · on Oct 7, 2017

You can get a bit closer to native feel with JavaFX. It's still not there but it at least the default Moderna theme doesn't rock the boat like Swing does.

Thankfully JavaFX is pretty easy to customise, it's roughly writing CSS, and there's a few high quality themes out there. Take a look at JFoeniX[0] for example for a material design inspired look.

[0]: https://github.com/jfoenixadmin/JFoenix

westoncb · on Oct 7, 2017

The only way is to change the Look and Feel, and unfortunately I think 'Nimbus' (which I show in one of the screenshots) is the most modern looking of the built-in Look and Feels. There may be some decent 3rd party options though... Like whatever IntelliJ is using.

vturner · on Oct 8, 2017

Not true, you can get the platform feel easily. I've seen swing do Windows XP through 7 easily. Never tried 10 yet.

westoncb · on Oct 8, 2017

I tried using the platform look and feel on macOS, but it gives a number of important elements tiny heights, including comments, making them unreadable. I'm sure there's a fix but I haven't looked into it.

vturner · on Oct 8, 2017

Ah, maybe it's been abandoned for JavaFX as others have pointed out?

pjmlp · on Oct 8, 2017

Yes, there are several ways to custom paint, hence why there were several companies selling components like JGoodies.

The problem is that most devs don't bother to read the Sun tutorials and respective UI/UX blogs on java.net, or books like "Filthy Rich Clients".