How can i design a professional looking JFrame?

Question

I want to design my GUI app's Top-level window to be a professional looking, to give you an example of what i am talking about, check the image attached with this post Sample GUI design

If there is a tutorial available that will be great

Thanks

Answer 1

One way is to write a custom Look-And-Feel.

• See for example http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/sce/index.html

• Custom Java Look and Feel for more examples

If that looks like too much work, the there are various colour and icon settings that can be tweaked - see the javadoc and the Swing Tutorial.