Comments on: Time to close the polls http://www.jasperpotts.com/blog/2009/05/time-to-close-the-polls/ Jasper Potts's Blog on Java and Life Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:09:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: vsync http://www.jasperpotts.com/blog/2009/05/time-to-close-the-polls/comment-page-1/#comment-1824 vsync Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:46:02 +0000 http://www.jasperpotts.com/blog/?p=212#comment-1824 How about letting users set their own look and feel preferences? Currently the only way is to set the preference system-wide or pass it on the command line to each application. If I as a user could set the default look and feel in ~/.java versus in /usr/lib somewhere I would be a happy camper. How about letting users set their own look and feel preferences?

Currently the only way is to set the preference system-wide or pass it on the command line to each application.

If I as a user could set the default look and feel in ~/.java versus in /usr/lib somewhere I would be a happy camper.

]]> By: Jasper Potts http://www.jasperpotts.com/blog/2009/05/time-to-close-the-polls/comment-page-1/#comment-1761 Jasper Potts Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:49:54 +0000 http://www.jasperpotts.com/blog/?p=212#comment-1761 See the code attached at bottom of blog post of table http://www.jasperpotts.com/blog/2008/08/nimbus-uimanager-uidefaults/ See the code attached at bottom of blog post of table http://www.jasperpotts.com/blog/2008/08/nimbus-uimanager-uidefaults/

]]> By: Walter http://www.jasperpotts.com/blog/2009/05/time-to-close-the-polls/comment-page-1/#comment-1759 Walter Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:29:46 +0000 http://www.jasperpotts.com/blog/?p=212#comment-1759 Hi, I tried to email but I couldn't get the link to work. I was just wondering if you used some kind of utility to generate the defaults page ? I have something to view defaults, but I like the HTML version better. http://jasperpotts.com/blogfiles/nimbusdefaults/nimbus.html Thanks Hi,
I tried to email but I couldn’t get the link to work. I was just wondering if you used some kind of utility to generate the defaults page ? I have something to view defaults, but I like the HTML version better.

http://jasperpotts.com/blogfiles/nimbusdefaults/nimbus.html

Thanks

]]> By: Rhizomorph http://www.jasperpotts.com/blog/2009/05/time-to-close-the-polls/comment-page-1/#comment-1730 Rhizomorph Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:18:10 +0000 http://www.jasperpotts.com/blog/?p=212#comment-1730 FYI - JSpinner's do not render correctly under Nimbus when using any SpinnerModel other than the default. Specifically, the outline around the text area of the JSpinner is no longer transparent like it's supposed to be (the area that is highlighted in blue when the component receives focus). To reproduce this, place two JSpinners side-by-side on a JPanel that has a black background. Leave one spinner alone, but set the SpinnerModel of the other one to either Number/List/Date etc. You'll see that the non-default JSpinner is not rendering the same way that the default spinner does. FYI – JSpinner’s do not render correctly under Nimbus when using any SpinnerModel other than the default. Specifically, the outline around the text area of the JSpinner is no longer transparent like it’s supposed to be (the area that is highlighted in blue when the component receives focus).

To reproduce this, place two JSpinners side-by-side on a JPanel that has a black background. Leave one spinner alone, but set the SpinnerModel of the other one to either Number/List/Date etc. You’ll see that the non-default JSpinner is not rendering the same way that the default spinner does.

]]> By: Ian Phillips http://www.jasperpotts.com/blog/2009/05/time-to-close-the-polls/comment-page-1/#comment-1696 Ian Phillips Fri, 15 May 2009 12:36:43 +0000 http://www.jasperpotts.com/blog/?p=212#comment-1696 Yeah, I've got no problem sharing the build I made. Do you want me to mail it to you or will you give me perms to upload it directly to java.net (my user name is iphillips)? I'll have a look at the Apple stuff as well, although if it is there obviously I can't share it due to the NDA :-( Yeah, I’ve got no problem sharing the build I made. Do you want me to mail it to you or will you give me perms to upload it directly to java.net (my user name is iphillips)?

I’ll have a look at the Apple stuff as well, although if it is there obviously I can’t share it due to the NDA :-(

]]> By: Jasper Potts http://www.jasperpotts.com/blog/2009/05/time-to-close-the-polls/comment-page-1/#comment-1695 Jasper Potts Fri, 15 May 2009 12:30:29 +0000 http://www.jasperpotts.com/blog/?p=212#comment-1695 Ian: If you get to the point you have a Jar and are willing to share then I am happy to give you access to nimbus.dev.java.net and you could put it up there. Also I heard today that a developer preview of Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 4 on http://connect.apple.com which is equivalent to 6u13 so will have Nimbus though I have not tested yet my self. Ian: If you get to the point you have a Jar and are willing to share then I am happy to give you access to nimbus.dev.java.net and you could put it up there. Also I heard today that a developer preview of Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 4 on http://connect.apple.com which is equivalent to 6u13 so will have Nimbus though I have not tested yet my self.

]]> By: Ian Phillips http://www.jasperpotts.com/blog/2009/05/time-to-close-the-polls/comment-page-1/#comment-1694 Ian Phillips Fri, 15 May 2009 12:19:49 +0000 http://www.jasperpotts.com/blog/?p=212#comment-1694 Cool, done it. It was a little tricky as I needed to download both the Swing forest and the BSD port forest from Mercurial then I could build against a BSD target. I also needed to tell make to ignore errors, as most of Swing failed to build, but that doesn't really concern me (I just needed it to get as far as running the code-gen stuff). There may be an easier way but I've got something to go on for now. Also, you've given me another idea - I'm going to grab the latest developer seed of snow-leopard (via ADC) and see if there's a new version of Java in there... Thanks! Ian. Cool, done it. It was a little tricky as I needed to download both the Swing forest and the BSD port forest from Mercurial then I could build against a BSD target. I also needed to tell make to ignore errors, as most of Swing failed to build, but that doesn’t really concern me (I just needed it to get as far as running the code-gen stuff). There may be an easier way but I’ve got something to go on for now.

Also, you’ve given me another idea – I’m going to grab the latest developer seed of snow-leopard (via ADC) and see if there’s a new version of Java in there…

Thanks!
Ian.

]]> By: Jasper Potts http://www.jasperpotts.com/blog/2009/05/time-to-close-the-polls/comment-page-1/#comment-1691 Jasper Potts Thu, 14 May 2009 14:47:10 +0000 http://www.jasperpotts.com/blog/?p=212#comment-1691 Should not be too hard as I did most of my development work on Nimbus on a Mac so have done this a lot. With Java 5 it will be very hard but with Java 6 not too hard. I did the lazy option and took most of Swing including Basic LAF, Synth LAF and Nimbus LAF and built all of them into Jar and ran with -Xbootpath and it worked. Once apple release the next version of Java due with Snow Leopard I think Nimbus should be in there. Should not be too hard as I did most of my development work on Nimbus on a Mac so have done this a lot. With Java 5 it will be very hard but with Java 6 not too hard. I did the lazy option and took most of Swing including Basic LAF, Synth LAF and Nimbus LAF and built all of them into Jar and ran with -Xbootpath and it worked. Once apple release the next version of Java due with Snow Leopard I think Nimbus should be in there.

]]> By: Ian Phillips http://www.jasperpotts.com/blog/2009/05/time-to-close-the-polls/comment-page-1/#comment-1690 Ian Phillips Thu, 14 May 2009 14:42:38 +0000 http://www.jasperpotts.com/blog/?p=212#comment-1690 Not sure how easy that'll be on a Mac, but I'll give it a go... Not sure how easy that’ll be on a Mac, but I’ll give it a go…

]]> By: Jasper Potts http://www.jasperpotts.com/blog/2009/05/time-to-close-the-polls/comment-page-1/#comment-1689 Jasper Potts Thu, 14 May 2009 14:04:02 +0000 http://www.jasperpotts.com/blog/?p=212#comment-1689 Now that Nimbus source code is in Java 7 there is nothing stopping someone taking it and creating a separate Jar under GPL with classpath exception license. I just don't have time to do it, sorry. Now that Nimbus source code is in Java 7 there is nothing stopping someone taking it and creating a separate Jar under GPL with classpath exception license. I just don’t have time to do it, sorry.

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