12. A3 Swing Look and Feel

Swing programs will start up in their own native look and feel rather than the Windows, Motif or Mac style

It is best to set the OS-specific system look and feel

The idea is to use UIManager.setLookAndFeel method

See next side for complete example

// Setting OS-specific look and feel:
private static void setSystemLookFeel()
{
    // Force GUI to come up in the OS-specific look and feel
    String laf = UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName();
    try
    {
        UIManager.setLookAndFeel(laf);
    }
    catch ( UnsupportedLookAndFeelException exc )
    {
        System.err.println( "Unsupported: " + laf );
    }
    catch ( Exception exc )
    {
        System.err.println( "Error loading " + laf );
    }
}