# Java is another Animal II: Selecting the Look and Feel

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**Created:** [3 June 2021 09:45 UTC](https://ifnotnil.com/t/java-is-another-animal-ii-selecting-the-look-and-feel/1803 "2021-06-03T09:45:29Z")\
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**Post date:** [17 July 2023 07:16 UTC](https://ifnotnil.com/t/java-is-another-animal-ii-selecting-the-look-and-feel/1803/3 "2023-07-17T07:16:25Z")

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It was not on Mac sir

Here is a Screenshot of an App @Jeannot was writing in JavaFX and running on MAC:

 ![grafik](https://ifnotnil.com/uploads/default/original/2X/2/2d985eef44b6e1f903a1713c4972c93bf307f4b5.jpeg)

he showed this Screenshot in another Thread on this Site you may look on it here:

> [@New book on building Mac apps with Swift](https://ifnotnil.com/t/new-book-on-building-mac-apps-with-swift/3365/9):
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> and if not you can even load your own CSS to Scenebuilder and test/apply different layouts. Not only light and dark, but you could create a monkey or banana theme. No monkey nor bananas were killed in my JavaFX app and looking the same on Windows, macOS, Linux and each platform with its own installer (no need for the end user to install anything from Java). And the app works dynamically for all csv files, no matter if a column contains a date, any kind of numbers, string, formula, etc.). It wi…

as you can see it is not a bug. It is so that I was running on Linux with a Design near to MacOS and of course it was there the other way around.

Have a nice day

As addendum: it is also possible to place the menu bar on top of the screen, you can decide by self how you want to do this.

In Java Swing and also JavaFX the Window by self is controlled by the OS, Java is not controlling that. You can do that when setting the Window on undecorated and styling the window decoration by self but I would not recommend that.

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