Since there aren't any further comments on this, I assume there isn't much interest in this. Deprecating it is probably the right move, if it never worked as intended on any platform. I think I'm going to try and get this working as some kind of library instead.
> On 3. Feb 2022, at 20:55, Martin Fox <mar...@martinfox.com> wrote: > > I took a look at this and discovered that UNIFIED doesn’t really work on any > platform. It was never supported on Linux, the Mac implementation doesn’t > really unify anything, and Windows is broken (see JDK-8154847 > <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8154847>). In that bug report it’s > suggested that UNIFIED be deprecated. > > I don’t think the UNIFIED API was ever complete. For example, I don’t see a > way of querying the system to discover the location of the OS window controls > so you can position your JavaFX controls appropriately. > > Getting this right on the Mac would require some plumbing. We would need an > API so we know which JavaFX controls are supposed to be in the unified title > bar area so we can get the hit-testing right to enable dragging, title bar > double-clicks, etc. I could imagine a new control that you could wrap around > an existing control (like a Toolbar) that would handle the hit-testing and > positioning correctly. I’m fuzzier on what it would take on Windows and > there’s still the drawing problems to sort out. > > Would be nice to have, the unified look is ascendant. > > >
