Java Swing

Appendix A. Look & Feel Resources

Table 1.1 shows a complete list of the component UI resources (showing the resource name and its expected value type) defined by the BasicLookAndFeel. Application-wide changes can be made to these properties using UIManager.put() . For example, the following line would cause all JButtons instantiated after this call to be created with a background color of black:

UIManager.put("Button.background", Color.black);

Alternately, a custom look-and-feel typically defines values for many of these properties in its initComponentDefaults() method. In this case, most resource values should be tagged as UIResources. For more information, see Chapter 26.

Table A-1. Swing PLAF Resources

ResourceName	Type
Button.background	Color
Button.border	Border
Button.font	Font
Button.foreground	Color
Button.margin	Insets
Button.textIconGap	Integer
Button.textShiftOffset	Integer
CheckBox.background	Color
CheckBox.border	Border
CheckBox.font	Font
CheckBox.foreground	Color
CheckBox.icon	Icon
CheckBox.margin	Insets
CheckBox.textIconGap	Integer
CheckBox.textShiftOffset	Integer
CheckBoxMenuItem.acceleratorFont	Font
CheckBoxMenuItem.acceleratorForeground	Color
CheckBoxMenuItem.acceleratorSelectionForeground	Color
CheckBoxMenuItem.arrowIcon	Icon
CheckBoxMenuItem.background	Color
CheckBoxMenuItem.border	Border
CheckBoxMenuItem.borderPainted	Boolean