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From: Knute Johnson <eternal@knutejohnson.com>
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Subject: Re: UIDefaults key?
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 11:17:51 -0700
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On 8/6/2014 10:31, Eric Sosman wrote:
> On 8/6/2014 12:25 PM, Knute Johnson wrote:
>> JComponent has a method, getUIClassID(),  to return the UIDefaults key
>> for the ComponentUI subclass.  A JTextField returns a key of
>> TextFieldUI.  A typical subclass is
>> javax.swing.plaf.metal.MetalTextFieldUI.
>>
>> All the interesting details in the UIDefaults however use keys such as
>> TextField.foreground, TextField.border, TextField.margin etc.  Is there
>> any way to get the prefix, TextField, from the component other than
>> stripping the UI off the end of the UIClassID?
>
>      Climbing the class hierarchy from MetalTextFieldUI up to
> BasicTextFieldUI, I find the method
>
>      /**
>       * Fetches the name used as a key to lookup properties through the
>       * UIManager.  This is used as a prefix to all the standard
>       * text properties.
>       *
>       * @return the name ("TextField")
>       */
>      protected String getPropertyPrefix() {
>          return "TextField";
>      }
>
> ... which sort of looks like what you're after.  (But I haven't
> researched any other delegate classes, so it's possible they're
> different.)
>

I think that is the answer Eric but I just not sure how to get there 
from here yet :-).

Thanks,

-- 

Knute Johnson