How can I get a Look & Feel like Intellij Idea in a Swing application?

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hanfezh picture hanfezh · May 2, 2011 · Viewed 9.5k times · Source

As a popular IDE for Java application, Intellij IDEA's look and feel is very beautiful in my opinion.

How did it do that? And how can I get a look and feel like Intellij IDEA in my Swing app?

Answer

Brian Burns picture Brian Burns · Jun 21, 2014

As far as the Darcula theme goes,

"I'm working on making Darcula a stand alone LaF. The work is almost done and I'm ready to release Darcula v 1.0 alpha or something. This means that you will be able to run you apps like this: 

$ java -cp "darcula.jar:myapplication.jar" -Dswing.laf=Darcula MainClass

And everything should work
I'll do an announce when Darcula is ready for publishing"

Konstantin Bulenkov - June 12, 2013

https://plus.google.com/+jetbrains/posts/NNCSHsjGNXD

I couldn't find any recent follow up info though.

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