Custom Swing look and feel vs. custom components?

Personally, I think you should go for a completely new look and feel... you may also be able to build it off of Synth L&F rather than writing everything on your own.

Personally, I think you should go for a completely new look and feel... you may also be able to build it off of Synth L&F rather than writing everything on your own. Nimbus is an example of an L&F written on top of Synth.

Thanks! This has proved great advice: I managed to get a customised version of Synth working and rendering some shiny new components in a couple of hours. – mikera Jul 1 '10 at 22:44 +1 for Synth LAF, it's a great LAF (and would be even better if base Synth UI objects were public and not friendly... ahem).

@mikera Just, if you consider a lot of changes and a heavily used application, it's better not to use xml configuration and painting by images, but to implement custom painters and configuration in the code (see Nimbus implementation in java7). Eats a lot less memory, and is more manageable. – Taisin Jul 2 '10 at 13:03.

Creating a new L&F is a longer road, but keeps your code simple. (If you only need a few changes it's not worth the effort. ) For example, the animations can be coded in the L&F part, so you don't need to worry about it in your components.

I would suggest to edit a L&F that is close to what you need.

See my answer to an almost identical question from a few weeks ago.

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