How can i design a professional looking JFrame?

Question

I want to design my GUI app's Top-level window to be a professional looking, to give you an example of what i am talking about, check the image attached with this post Sample GUI design

If there is a tutorial available that will be great

Thanks

Solution

One way is to write a custom Look-And-Feel.

• See for example http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/sce/index.html

• Custom Java Look and Feel for more examples

If that looks like too much work, the there are various colour and icon settings that can be tweaked - see the javadoc and the Swing Tutorial.

Comments

[unholysampler]

Can you explain why you think that looks professional and why what you are normally making is not?

[DNA]

If you can define "professional looking", then maybe someone can answer...

[skystar7]

I don't want the plain looking jframe like this img21.imageshack.us/img21/7677/plainjframe.png, a tutorial on how to design a frame similar to the one i gave in the question will be nice

[mKorbel]

good code equals good GUI and excelent code sometimes excelent GUI, without Custom Look&Feel or Translucency, everything is about used LayoutManagers