General Options

The global options are used by the JGoodies Windows L&f and the JGoodies Plastic L&f family. They can help you get a better multi-platform appearance and Windows emulation.

Button Margins

This option enables you to use narrow button margins, that better comply with native widget sets, especially the Windows widgetry. For backward compatibility you can disable this feature.

Tab Icons

This features enables or disables icons in JTabbedPanes.

Popup Shadows

You can enable or disable drop shadows for popup menus. As of the Looks 2.0 this feature is enabled on modern Windows (98/ME/2000/2003/XP/Vista) and disabled otherwise.

Note that this feature may be inactive even though it is enabled. For example drop shadows are always inactive on the Mac OS X, because this platform already uses native drop shadows. See also Options#isPopupDropShadowActive().

Plastic Tab Style

Enables you to choose a style for Plastic TabbedPanes, the default flat Plastic style, vs. the Metal L&F tab style.

Plastic Focus Contrast

Allows you to choose a focus color contrast style: low vs. high. The low contrast focus colors look good, where the high contrast focus colors are easier to perceive.