jEdit Look&Feel (true crossplatform)
comments | Posted in jedit | texteditor on Sunday, August 12 2007 10:04:00 GMT
As discussed in my previous post the default jEdit look and feel is kinda crummy. So fix it! :) You can see my jedit+usb post that I use the windows look and feel in my day to day work. It works great when I'm on windows and is just a JRE setting that doesn't affect loading times of jedit in any way. If you not under windows you can also install the "look and feel" plugin via the PluginManager. Or (this is my option) install the look and feel yourself and strap it to jedit using a custom startup script. I like the fact that jEdit is just Java and XML so if you know what you're doing you can customize the application to your whim.
[JGoodies](http://www.jgoodies.com/), is an awesome company has a lookandfeel called **Looks**. Looks has many themes and at least 1 is Windows-like. I use it when i'm not on Windows. To easily install it go and download the looks-x.x.x.jar from their website and place it in your _[jedit Home]/jars_ folder and then add the following to a script to your _[jedit Home]/startup/_ directory.
/** Example customLF.bsh file for /startup. */
com.jgoodies.plaf.plastic.PlasticXPLookAndFeel.setMyCurrentTheme(new com.jgoodies.plaf.plastic.theme.SkyBluer());
try {
UIManager.setLookAndFeel(new com.jgoodies.plaf.plastic.PlasticXPLookAndFeel());
}
This directs Java to override the set look and feel to the specified l&f. I keep a tight grip on my installed plugins and jedit deployment size for usb usage, and because of that I opt to do this all manually. As I said previously the lookandfeel plugin can do all of this for you and more.