Maybe see if Quaqua can help .. it can make the transition of a Windows Swing app to a Mac one
better: http://www.randelshofer.ch/quaqua.
If you need a look&feel that works cross platform and is quite nice checkout:
http://www.javasoft.de/jsf/public/products/synthetica
HTH,
Naden
On Thursday, September 14, 2006, at 04:04PM, Carlos Martins <email@hidden> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I need your help in making an ugly windows app look good on the Mac.
>
>I am part of team developing this monstrous java application for the
>company I work for. Many forms, many input fields in the forms - the
>usual windowz mess (of course the company doesn't even care wether
>their app runs on OS X or not... not yet anyway!!....)
>This is a spring rich client application, and the LookAndFeel
>configuration is done through a class that implements the
>InitializingBean interface and is injected in the configuration bean.
>I made a few adaptations for the mac - managed to select the Aqua
>Look And Feel, put the main menu on the apple menu bar, but even
>though the application took the Aqua aspect, it still doesn't look good.
>To try to accommodate all those input fields in the forms, I further
>set the Label font with a reduced font size and I reduced the font
>size of all input items as well.
>But... When I run the app on my mac, the forms still look even bigger
>than they do on windows. The text fields are large. They don't seem
>to shrink after I reduced the font size.
>
>Thank you very much for reading. Any pointers will be most welcome.
>
>Sincerely
>Carlos
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