I would say give http://www.jidesoft.com/ a try - multiple look and feels and a slew of widgtes that make your swing application look like a modern app. My two cents: Oracle should buy that company and have them add all the widgets to swing in the first place...
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Will <willha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Loooooooong time since I posted here. How are you all doing? > > I'm working on a new Swing GUI application at work, and wanted a fresh > look to distinguish it in the users' minds from the older application > it will replace. The older application uses the JGoodies "Plastic 3D" > look and feel, which is very nice, but starting to feel a bit dated. > > I searched around for Swing LaFs, and was rather disappointed to find > so few available, even fewer that are free, and even the very > expensive ones look old. While searching I finally found out what > Synth is all about, and started looking for Synth skins/themes - only > to find a similar story. Very little is available out there. All very > disappointing... Last time I checked in, Romaine Guy was giving Swing > a major makeover and things were looking up, graphically. > > Perhaps I have missed something. Does anyone know of a good resource > for Synth skins and/or Swing LaFs? Perhaps a Synth "designer"-type > editor app for quickly creating & testing out skins? > > Cheers, > Will. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
