Java Swing - Set Look and Feel

How to set the look and feel for a Swing application?
The Java Development Kit contains a few look and feel classes (i.e. subclasses of the LookAndFeel class)

com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel
javax.swing.plaf.metal.MetalLookAndFeel
com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows.WindowsLookAndFeel
com.sun.java.swing.plaf.motif.MotifLookAndFeel

You can set any of these by calling the setLookAndFeel() method of the UIManager

public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {     UIManager.setLookAndFeel("com.sun.java.swing.plaf.motif.MotifLookAndFeel");
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            //Just print stacktrace here since it's an example.
            ex.printStackTrace();
        }
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                createTheGUIComponents();
            }
        });
    }

public static void main(String[] args) {

try { UIManager.setLookAndFeel("com.sun.java.swing.plaf.motif.MotifLookAndFeel");

} catch (Exception ex) {

//Just print stacktrace here since it's an example.

ex.printStackTrace();

}

SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {

public void run() {

createTheGUIComponents();

}

});

}

If you want the application to adjust to the platform it is currently running on, you can specify that the look and feel for the current system should be used:

UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());

1	UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());

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