<Swing Dev> Nimbus no longer part of JRE6?

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 17 June 2010 14:54, Walter Laan <W.Laan at costengineering.eu> wrote:
>> I've just installed JRE6u20 (sun's proprietary builds) and as far as I
>> can see nimbus is no longer included in that distribution?
>> Am I just wrong, or has it really been omitted?
>
> It's still under com.sun.java.plaf.nimbus.*
>
> import java.awt.EventQueue;
>
> import javax.swing.JFrame;
> import javax.swing.JLabel;
> import javax.swing.UIManager;
> import javax.swing.UIManager.LookAndFeelInfo;
>
> public class TestNimbus {
>    public static void main(String[] args) {
>        EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
>            public void run() {
>                String nimbus = "No Nimbus";
>                for (LookAndFeelInfo info : UIManager.getInstalledLookAndFeels()) {
>                    if ("nimbus".equalsIgnoreCase(info.getName())) {
>                        try {
>                            nimbus = info.getClassName();
>                            UIManager.setLookAndFeel(nimbus);
>                        }
>                        catch (Exception e) {
>                            e.printStackTrace();
>                        }
>                        break;
>                    }
>                }
>
>                JFrame frame = new JFrame("Test");
>                frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);
>                frame.getContentPane().add(new JLabel(
>                                System.getProperty("java.version") + ": " + nimbus));
>                frame.pack();
>                frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
>                frame.setVisible(true);
>            }
>        });
>    }
> }
>
>

It's also available in the same package in IcedTea6 1.8 which should
be available through your distro's OpenJDK packages.  I don't know why
you'd need to use the proprietary binaries for this.
-- 
Andrew :-)

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