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Net Beans GUI Builder - any way to get it to use Metal Look and Feel on Windows?

 
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Per the title - I can preview my projects in Metal, Nimbus, CDE/Motif, Windows, and Windows Classic, but I have to design my project with the Windows look and feel. Since I want it to be cross-platform (and most Java's default to Metal anyways), is there a way I can set Project Matisse (the GUI builder) to let me design my project with the Metal look and feel? I've read how to get NetBeans to use a different layout, but everything I read says that changes NetBeans itself, but not the GUI builder therein.

On a related note, is there a way to disable the snap-to-edges-or-other-objects feature for certain objects? It's certainly useful at times, but other times it makes it very frusterating to try to build a truly free-form project.
 
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Moving to a more appropriate forum.
 
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Maneesh Godbole wrote:Moving to a more appropriate forum.



Thanks. Sorry about that, didn't even spot this forum.

And I did end up finding the answer. Google hadn't been helping, but AltaVista actually was very effective.
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