Setting Font at one place

[niravpatel]

Hi there,
In creating JFC/Swing Forms, how to setup the default JMenuBar, JMenu and JMenuItem Fonts so that I don't need to set the font individually. Point is, I want to set the font to Courier New for all the JMenuBar, JMenu and JMenuItems in one single place, how can I do that?

Thanking you,
Nirav

 

[JoshCastagno]

As with all Swing Components, there are UIManager properties that you can set to change their default look. In your case...

Font f = new Font(...);
UIManager.put("MenuBar.font", f);
UIManager.put("MenuItem.font", f);

...would probably get the job done. Keep in mind that these are just suggestions to the UI, a particular plaf could ignore these if it wanted to.

Hope this helps...
Josh Castagno

http://www.jdc-software.com

 

[niravpatel]

Hi Josh,
I tried as you said but It turned in to compilation error:
saying .font is not accessible!

Are you sure it works? Have you tried this before?
I am using Sun J2SDK 1.4.1...

Thanking You,
Nirav

Nirav Patel
#include<NoOneLivesForever>

 

[JoshCastagno]

I just tried this code on 1.4.2 and it worked fine... make sure your are setting the defaults before you create the menu stuf...

public class Test {
	public static final void main(String[] args) {
		Font f = new Font("courier", Font.BOLD, 20);

		UIManager.put("Menu.font", f);
		UIManager.put("MenuBar.font", f);
		UIManager.put("MenuItem.font", f);

		JFrame testframe = new JFrame("Test Window");
		testframe.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
		testframe.getContentPane().setLayout(new BorderLayout(0, 0));

		JMenuBar mb = new JMenuBar();
		JMenu menu = new JMenu("Menu");
		menu.add(new JMenuItem("Menu Item 1"));
		menu.add(new JMenuItem("Menu Item 2"));
		mb.add(menu);

		testframe.setJMenuBar(mb);

		testframe.pack();
		testframe.setVisible(true);
	}
}

 

[niravpatel]

Thanks Josh,
It worked!

Nirav Patel
#include<NoOneLivesForever>