Re: Modeler L&F

From: Andrus Adamchik (andru..bjectstyle.org)
Date: Tue Jun 28 2005 - 10:57:20 EDT

  • Next message: Michael Gentry (Yes, I'm a Contractor): "Re: Modeler L&F"

    I can't say that I am happy with either L&F.

    JGoodies one breaks common Mac shortcuts and doesn't allow Mac-style
    menu. Also it may break with every new release of OS X (something
    that just happened when I switched to Tiger - vertical scrollbars now
    look half-blue/half-white).

    Mac L&F has its own share of ugliness. What bothers me the most
    though is that now we will have to test more than one L&F for each
    Modeler change. For one thing font sizes are different. So this is
    extra work.

    So I am still undecided... I wonder how most commercial Swing apps
    achieve their cross-platform branded looks?

    Here is another idea - maybe make it a choice in "General
    Preferences" - users can select either JGoodies L&F or their platform
    default. Once the choice is made, we can simply close the old frame
    and open a new one without shutting down JVM - I think this should be
    enough.

    And finally - I found a visual glitch with Mac L&F:


    osx.jpg

    On Jun 28, 2005, at 10:07 AM, Michael Gentry (Yes, I'm a Contractor)
    wrote:

    > I've made some changes locally to Cayenne Modeler (1.2) to default
    > to the
    > Aqua look and feel if running on OS X. This is done only on
    > initialization
    > and doesn't change anything in modeler.preferences that is already
    > there.
    > I'll check these sometime in if no one has objections.
    >
    > Thanks,
    >
    > /dev/mrg

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