Re: [JAVA2D] Question about Frames/JFrames

[burma]

Look at http://www.javazoom.net/jlgui/jlgui.html
It's open source.
Emmanuel.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Ross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2003 8:31 PM
Subject: [JAVA2D] Question about Frames/JFrames



Ok, this question crosses the Swing/AWT/Java2D divide, but I'll try here
first.
Is there any way to create something resembling a "modern day" mp3 player
GUI? I'm talking about the way the media players like Quicktime or Windows
Media player can switch to a "compact mode" where the player window is
non-rectangular shaped, and contains little animated  panels that can

slide


in and out to display things like equalizer settings or play lists, etc.

I think I could figure out how to do the animated panel openings and
closings within a JPanel or Component with custom drawing, clipping, and a
background thread. But I would have to draw the whole player completely
enclosed inside a top-level window, and that would not look very "cool",

if


you know what I mean. (I have pretty much given up on Inner frames)

I just realized that if AWT provided transparent native-windows that could
be completely undecorated, I could just put my player in there and any
"curves" would be illusions created within the square window, with the
appropriate background pixels just made 100% transparent. (If you

implement


this using alpha, you could also probably get translucent windows for


free,


as transparent is just a special case of translucent where the opacity is
0%)
The only other thing that would be pure gravy is the ability to add
additional regions to the "window dragging" handler, since there wouldn't

be


a window title, I'd need something for the user to be able to click on to
move the window around the screen. Maybe some call to set a certain color
value to be the "hot color" that could be set up as a drag target.
From a strictly  native programming point of view, i.e., MFC, Cocoa, etc,


I


don't think implementing this kind of window behavior is that hard or


risky,


you just have to write a new kind of window definition class for each
platform ....a long time ago this would have been a WDEF under Mac OS
(pre-X).
Anyway, I'm guessing what I am trying to do can't be currently done in


Java


eh?

If that's the case, I would suggest maybe evaluating the real benefits


this


would provide to Java developers, especially for deploying applications in
the consumer space, where these kinds of eye-candy are now common place.

Sun


*is* trying to push Java into the consumer mainstream right?

Rob




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