Hi,
Is there any Look and Feel mechanism in place, like the one in Swing? That
doesn't appear to exist..
Are there any plans to add one? You can only do so much with CSS...
Thanks in advance, best regards,
--
Pedro Duque Vieira
At present there are no plans to introduce any further API or
functionality in this area, but if there is something you are wanting
then you should file feature requests in Jira.
-- Jonathan
On 9/12/2013 11:54 a.m., Pedro Duque Vieira wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there any Look and Feel mechanism in place
You can set skin classes from CSS so should be able to do everything you could
with Swing and more. With just a CSS file and skins as and when needed.
Jasper
> On Dec 8, 2013, at 3:00 PM, Jonathan Giles wrote:
>
> At present there are no plans to introduce any further API or
> functionality i
It may be possible to change the LOOK with CSS, but not the FEEL, which is
where Java apps have traditionally failed big time.
Some things that I don’t think can be changed with CSS:
1) texts
2) order of buttons
3) escape characters for shortcuts
4) menus
5) system-level stuff (double-clicking o
Thanks!
@Jasper: Yes, that's very interesting! Forgot that was possible to do in
CSS.
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 12:15 AM, Stephen Winnall wrote:
> It may be possible to change the LOOK with CSS, but not the FEEL, which is
> where Java apps have traditionally failed big time.
>
> Some things that
@Stephen, you are absolutely right about this. But such an approach (and
pretty much *any* approach) to "emulated" native look and feels is fraught
with difficulties and complexities.
Firstly, it will *never* be possible to completely emulate the native look
and feel. And, even if the difference
> On Dec 8, 2013, at 9:18 PM, Felix Bembrick wrote:
>
> Firstly, it will *never* be possible to completely emulate the native look
> and feel.
Sure it is. Though it may never be practical, for many of the reasons you have
given.
> My reasoning is: why bother?
Because it matters. As com
