Netbeans and Insubstantial

Question

I recently saw that there was an approach to integrate the Substance LAF with Netbeans that was abandoned in 2008. Now, the active development is made within the Insubstantial - project and since 2008, a lot of advances where made.

Everytime i see an article about Substance (and/or Flamingo) and Netbeans, the authors are using an outdated version of Substance, but not the new Insubstantial libraries.

Does someone know how to use them with Netbeans? The standard way by just adding the --laf parameter doesn't seem to work and i guess there wouldn't have been the integration project if it's that simple.

My target is to use a self-written SubstanceSkin with my Netbeans Platform application.

Kind regards,

David

Answer 1

You can try using -Dswing.defaultlaf in netbeans.conf.

For example :

-Dswing.defaultlaf=org.pushingpixels.substance.api.skin.SubstanceBusinessLookAndFeel

Here is the documentation and the available skins.