List of Java Swing UI properties?

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There seem to be a ton of UI properties that can be set with

 UIManager.put("key", value);

Is there a list somewhere of all keys that can be set?

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5 Answers

For what it's worth, you can find a fancier version of this where all the properties are displayed in a GUI with each component on a separate tab in a tabbed pane. You can also change the LAF. Check out UIManager Defaults.

user_1318720

It depends on the Java implementation. Here is the simple code that you can run to see all available properties and their current values.

public static void main(String[] args) {
            UIDefaults defaults = UIManager.getDefaults();
            System.out.println(defaults.size()+ " properties defined !");
            String[ ] colName = {"Key", "Value"};
            String[ ][ ] rowData = new String[ defaults.size() ][ 2 ];
            int i = 0;
            for(Enumeration e = defaults.keys(); e.hasMoreElements(); i++){
                Object key = e.nextElement();
                rowData[ i ] [ 0 ] = key.toString();
                rowData[ i ] [ 1 ] = ""+defaults.get(key);
                System.out.println(rowData[i][0]+" ,, "+rowData[i][1]);
            }
            JFrame f = new JFrame("UIManager properties default values");
            JTable t = new JTable(rowData, colName);
            f.setContentPane(new JScrollPane(t));
            //f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
            f.pack();
            f.setVisible(true);
        }
user_2295350

The code posted before just gets the properties set by the current look&feel which is the metal l&f by default.

It lists a total of 636 defined properties on my system (WinXP with Java 1.6.0_17) with less defined on Windows L&F and Motif L&F. I found another list on the internet (http://www.java2s.com/Tutorial/Java/0240__Swing/ListingUIDefaultProperties.htm) where 795 are found.

So I think the question still remains: Which properties are there? Obviously, even the Metal L&F doesn't set them all (or the code resulting in 795 is wrong).

I am puzzled by the fact there doesn't seem to exist an official list by sun, which would be what I really am looking for (as well as the OP if I got the question right).

user_2530670
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