java swing look and feel

[s2pid]

i wanna create a program with a gui that will look simillar to this.. is it possible in swing? can someone show me a code or 2? thanks.

[sjalle]

Of course it is possible, but it will take quite a lot of work. One thing is the looks,
the other thing is the code that is going to respond to this gui. Creating the gui
requires, in my opinion, a high level of proficiency in java swing, and showing "a code
or 2" for this is not just like that. The interactive graphics alone is a big job.
This represents hundreds of lines of code.

[s2pid]

i see... thanks for the reply. i just want to know if i can really customize the java swing's look.. is swing the only one that i can customize? can i customize the look and feel of awt?

[sjalle]

I'm not sure what degree of "costumization" you want to do, basically you can start
with a plain empty JPanel and code the whole paintjob for your entire application,
but I would not recommend it.

But, I wouldn't dream of using awt for the layout you've posted here.

[s2pid]

why not recommend painting the gui?

[sjalle]

By "paintiing the gui" I meant all of it; textfields, scrollbars, listboxes,
comboboxes (good luck), trees, tables.... Doing that will be a waste of time. Better
to learn the swing concepts and customize the stuff you want to make fancy looking,
like subclassing.

[s2pid]

how does subclassing work? is there a tutorial on subclassing?

[elrick33]

You might want to study another year or two before trying anything like this.

[sjalle]

how does subclassing work? is there a tutorial on subclassing?

Subclassing (or extending) existing classes is the very core of Java. A java
program that doesn't extend any other classes can't be made. Even if you
make a program like this

public class DeadSimple {
  public static void main (String [] args) {
    System.out.println("Im so simple");
  }
}

..the DeadSimple class is by default extending java.lang.Object, - the father
of all Java classes.