JFileChooser - Changing Display Font

Question

Hi all
Is there a very simple way to change the JFileChooser's display font from the default to say ("Verdana", Font.PLAIN, 11) without using a whole new look and feel?. I was contemplating the putClientProperty method but I've searched and can't seem to find any examples of how to use it.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
ICE

Answer 1

You should define "display font" since that is not a Java term. If you want to change all the fonts, try the
following (one version also changes the title bar's font).
You could easily tweak this code to differential between different components -- say give JButtons a different font).
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class OptionPaneExample {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        exampleWithFontChange();
        exampleWithFontChangeInTitleBar();
        System.exit(0);
    static void exampleWithFontChange() {
        Font font = new Font("Verdana", Font.PLAIN, 11);
        JFileChooser x = new JFileChooser();
        recursivelySetFonts(x, font);
        x.showOpenDialog(null);
    static void exampleWithFontChangeInTitleBar() {
        final Font font = new Font("Verdana", Font.PLAIN, 11);
        JDialog.setDefaultLookAndFeelDecorated(true); //optional
        JFileChooser x = new JFileChooser() {
            protected JDialog createDialog(Component parent) throws HeadlessException {
                JDialog dialog = super.createDialog(parent);
                recursivelySetFonts(dialog, font);
                return dialog;
        x.showOpenDialog(null);
    public static void recursivelySetFonts(Component comp, Font font) {
        comp.setFont(font);
        if (comp instanceof Container) {
            Container cont = (Container) comp;
            for(int j=0, ub=cont.getComponentCount(); j<ub; ++j)
                recursivelySetFonts(cont.getComponent(j), font);
}