Setting a Pre determined Font size for an Application.

Question

I have a Swing application that is running on Windows and the FONT size
expands on the GUI if I change the Appearance of the Font in Windows XP
This normally should not happen as the appearances of the Windows Font size
should have no impact on the application that is running.
But to be on a safer side,can can I use any method that will have a predetermined
FONT size when the Swing application executes:
like : setFont(new Font("Courier", Font.PLAIN, 12));
The code below is the starting point of the application.
public class RFApp extends SingleFrameApplication {
     private RFMainFrame mainFrame;
     @Override
     protected void startup() {
          mainFrame = new RFMainFrame();
          setMainFrame(mainFrame);
          show(mainFrame);
public class MainFrame extends JFrame {
     private final ToolBar toolBar = new ToolBar(this);
     private final StatusBar statusBar = new StatusBar(this);
     private final MainPanel mainPanel = new MainPanel(this);
     public MainFrame() {
          super("Main Frame"); // This has a BIG FONT increase
          initComponents();
     private void initComponents() {
          setLayout(new BorderLayout());
          getContentPane().add(toolBar, BorderLayout.NORTH);
          getContentPane().add(mainPanel, BorderLayout.CENTER);
          getContentPane().add(statusBar, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
}

Answer 1

Since you really need to change foreground and etc. Use the following code to list all the resources that may set the font colors you want (the example only excludes background color resource, so it may set more than what you want, you need to pin point specific color resouces from the print out to suit your own need).
UIDefaults defaults = UIManager.getLookAndFeelDefaults();
for(Iterator i = defaults.keySet().iterator(); i.hasNext();) {
String name = (String)i.next();
Object value = defaults.get(name);
if (value instanceof ColorUIResource && !name.endsWith("Background")
&& !name.endsWith("background")) {
System.out.println(name);
UIManager.put(name, new ColorUIResource(Color.red));
}