Background of entire application...

Question

Hi,
I was wondering if anyone knew of an easy way to keep the background color of my application all the same? i have a app that looks great on one machine but then bad on another because the "gray" that the numerous systems define as their system color are different and it throws off images amoung other things. I tried to go thru and change the background of each and every component but that is super tedious. I just thought I would check if there was a way to juts set it in one spot?
Thanks, Ben

Answer 1

I have had the same problem, solved like this:
I have a GUITools class with the following method:
public static void setupUILnF()
        //Make sure we have nice window decorations.
          JDialog.setDefaultLookAndFeelDecorated(true);
        JFrame.setDefaultLookAndFeelDecorated(true);
        javax.swing.plaf.metal.MetalLookAndFeel.setCurrentTheme(new myTheme());
          UIManager.put("TextArea.font",EDITABLE_TEXT_FONT);
          UIManager.put("TextField.font",EDITABLE_TEXT_FONT);
          UIManager.put("ToolTip.background",TOOLTIP_BG);
          UIManager.put("ToolTip.font",DEFAULT_TEXT_FONT);
          //The constants are defined as public static final colors & fonts
     }here is the myTheme class:
public class DropmanTheme extends DefaultMetalTheme
    private final ColorUIResource primary1 = new ColorUIResource(0,0,0);
    private final ColorUIResource primary2 = new ColorUIResource(20,20,20);
    private final ColorUIResource primary3 = new ColorUIResource(GUITools.DARK_BLUE);
    private final ColorUIResource secondary1 = new ColorUIResource(100,100,100);
    private final ColorUIResource secondary2 = new ColorUIResource(GUITools.DARKENED);
    private final ColorUIResource secondary3 = new ColorUIResource(GUITools.BACKGROUND);
    private final FontUIResource controlTextFont = GUITools.DEFAULT_TEXT_FONT;
    private final FontUIResource userTextFont = GUITools.DEFAULT_TEXT_FONT;
    //public ColorUIResource getPrimary1() { return primary1; }
    //public ColorUIResource getPrimary2() { return primary2; }
    //public ColorUIResource getPrimary3() { return primary3; }
    //public ColorUIResource getSecondary1() { return secondary1; }
    public ColorUIResource getSecondary2() { return secondary2; }
    public ColorUIResource getSecondary3() { return secondary3; }
    //public FontUIResource getSystemTextFont() { return ; }
    public FontUIResource getControlTextFont() { return controlTextFont; }
    public FontUIResource getUserTextFont() { return userTextFont; }
    //public FontUIResource getWindowTitleFont() { return ; }
}I have some turned off coz I didnt pick the colors yet.
peace out