Synth Look and Feel
synth is a skinnable Java look and feel, which is configured with an XML property file.
According to Sun, goals for synth were:
- Enable to create custom look without writing any code.
- Allow appearance to be configured from images.
- Provide the ability to customize the look of a component based on its named properties.
- Provide a centralized point for overriding the look of all components.
- Enable custom rendering based on images, or user-defined Template:Javadoc:SEs.
History
synth is available beginning with version J2SE 5.0 of Java (see Java version history).
Java upcoming Java SE 6 Update 10 release (which was called Consumer JRE by Sun) will use Nimbus, a cross-platform Look and Feel implemented with synth, as the default Look and Feel[1][2].
Architecture
Synth is a skinnable look and feel in which all painting is delegated to the components, without having to write any code (see Template:Javadoc:SE).
However synth does not provide a default look, and components that are not defined in the synth XML file will not be painted. It is however possible to assign a default style to all other widgets, and customize styles for some specific widgets only.
Example
The following XML declaration defines a style named textfield and binds it to all text fields. The defaultStyle allows to set a default font, foreground and background colors to all other widgets.
<source lang="xml">
<synth>
<style id="defaultStyle">
<state>
<color value="WHITE" type="BACKGROUND"/>
<color value="BLACK" type="FOREGROUND"/>
</state>
</style>
<bind style="defaultStyle" type="region" key=".*"/>
<style id="textfield">
<state>
<color value="yellow" type="BACKGROUND"/>
</state>
<imagePainter method="textFieldBorder" path="textfieldborder.png"
sourceInsets="5 6 6 7" paintCenter="false"/>
<insets top="5" left="6" bottom="6" right="7"/>
</style>
<bind style="textfield" type="region" key="TextField"/>
</synth>
</source>
Supposing that the XML declaration is defined in a file named synthExample.xml, the following code loads the XML definition file and sets the current look and feel to synth (loading a synth Look and Feel is done using the load method of the Template:Javadoc:SE class):
<source lang="java">
SynthLookAndFeel laf = new SynthLookAndFeel();
laf.load(new File("synthExample.xml").toURL());
UIManager.setLookAndFeel(laf);
</source>
See also
- Swing, the standard cross-platform widget toolkit for Java
- Pluggable look and feel
- Look and Feel in Widget Toolkits
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External links
- Template:Javadoc:SE API documentation
- synth file format
- synth tutorial
- another synth tutorial
- nimbus home page
- Synthetica - commercial Synth Look and Feel with many different themes
- EaSynth Look And Feel Designer - commercial IDE for Synth based look and feel
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