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These tips are for advanced users.

Add more Look And Feels
Ant Commander is compatible with several Look And Feels (Skins). To install a look and feel, download it and copy the jar files in the lib directory of Ant Commander.

Here is the list of the supported look and feel:

  • Kunststoff
  • JGoodies
  • FH
  • Compiere
  • Liquid
  • Metouia
  • Tiny
  • Wood
  • Pgs
  • Tonic
  • Alloy
  • Skin
  • Simple

Use Skin Look And Feel or Simple Look And Feel
Ant Commander is compatible with Simple Look and Feel : http://www.memoire.com/guillaume-desnoix/slaf/ and Skin Look And Feel : http://www.l2fprod.com/

Have the icon on the file AntCommander.jar
If you want to see the Ant Commander icon instead of a white rectangle on the AntCommander.jar file :
  • Extract the file AntCommander.ico in the directory antcommander of the file AntCommander.jar using a tool like Winzip.
  • Execute copy /b AntCommander.ico + AntCommander.jar AntCommander_.jar
  • Rename AntCommander_.jar as AntCommander.jar (replace the file)
  • Modify the MS Windows registry at the path My Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.jar\DefaultIcon and My Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\.jar\DefaultIcon with a String Value (Default) with the value %1.