ok, it's probably best to play around a bit with quaqua. at first
look, it seems very fine. but i instantly have a feature
request ;-)))))))) all my graphite look is gone, everything is poppy
blue ;)
i don't think that floating windows is totally odd on windows or
linux ... i think i go for a simple pure java imitation of the
panther/ tiger bar look at first . like in the attached example. i
also like to stay java 1.4 compatible, so setAlwaysOnTop has to be
buried in a block of java.lang.reflect stuff...
JFrame f = new JFrame();
AquaWindowBar awb = new AquaWindowBar( "Test", true,
AquaWindowBar.VERTICAL );
f.setUndecorated( true );
f.getContentPane().add( awb, BorderLayout.WEST );
f.setSize( 80, 320 );
f.setVisible( true );
i'm interested in your tracking-focus-of-all-windows class though.
how do you get the frame's closing gadget images in quaqua, directly
from the macos or as an included image resource file?
best regards, -sciss-
Am 31.05.2006 um 20:41 schrieb Werner Randelshofer:
On 31.05.06 20:23 Uhr, "Sciss" at <email@hidden> wrote:
hmmm, that looks very good. unfortunately i want to stay platform
independant ;-( as i understand, quaqua will only work on mac os x ?
Please understand, that there is currently no other platform than
Mac OS X
that supports the notion of floating palettes.
For example, on Windows, floating palettes would look very much out of
place. Also, they would be hard to use; on Windows. e.g. every
framed window
is put into the task bar at the bottom of the screen. Mac OS X only
puts the
minimized application windows in the task bar.
About platform independence of the Quaqua look and feel:
- Technically, the Quaqua look and feel is implemented in a platform
independent way.
- Legally, the artwork used by Quaqua is copyright by Apple
Computers. And
Apple is not known to have licensed this artwork to other platforms
than Mac
OS X.
- And in terms of functionality. Some features that the Quaqua look
and feel
provides just don't make sense on other platforms.
e.g. resolving a Mac OS X alias does not make sense on Windows,
because thee
are no such aliases.
After all, the purpose of Quaqua is a native platform integration.
Please notice, that there are other look and feels that are not
platform
independent. The most notable is probably the Windows look and feel
which is
part of the J2SE JVM's provided by Sun.
Anyway. I personally do not like to be bound to a specific platform
either.
So, I am trying to keep this spirit with the Quaqua look and feel
as well.
For example, the JSheet functionality in the Quaqua look and feel
nicely
degrades to document modal dialogs on other operating systems.
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