<Swing Dev> [9] Review request for 8136366 Add a public API to create a L&F without installation

[Sergey Bylokhov]

On 31.03.16 9:50, Alexandr Scherbatiy wrote:
>    Some Swing L&Fs are not public. It is not possible to create them
> using reflection now in JDK 9 because of the modularization feature.
>    There are use cases when some information should be obtained from a
> L&F without its installation
>     - check if L&F is supported
>     - take some defaults to use it in custom L&F
>
>    The proposed solution adds UIManager.createLookAndFeel(className)
> method which allows to create a given L&F without installation.

It is interesting should we allow creation of any L&F or only those 
which were installed and/or supported? I recall that it was possible to 
initialize the windows l&f on linux, Will the new method add a 
possibility to create it? if yes should we support that?


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Best regards, Sergey.