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, 11 Dec 2011 18:41:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chris Whitehead http://www.jasperpotts.com/blog/2009/05/time-to-close-the-polls/comment-page-1/#comment-1946 Chris Whitehead Sat, 24 Apr 2010 07:16:55 +0000 http://www.jasperpotts.com/blog/?p=212#comment-1946 Man I take that back!!! I looked over a link you posted earlier, WOW!!! This thing is very extensible, and looks to be fairly easy. Hopefully looks aren't deceiving... ;) Yes, it is 2:15 in the morn. I guess OCD has it's ups and downs.... Thanks again Jasper for the great L&F!!! Man I take that back!!!

I looked over a link you posted earlier, WOW!!!

This thing is very extensible, and looks to be fairly easy. Hopefully looks aren’t deceiving… ;)

Yes, it is 2:15 in the morn. I guess OCD has it’s ups and downs….

Thanks again Jasper for the great L&F!!!

]]> By: Chris Whitehead http://www.jasperpotts.com/blog/2009/05/time-to-close-the-polls/comment-page-1/#comment-1945 Chris Whitehead Sat, 24 Apr 2010 04:54:33 +0000 http://www.jasperpotts.com/blog/?p=212#comment-1945 How's it going Jasper and thanks for the great GUI. Well almost great. ;) I didn't really know the proper place to post this but just wanted to let you know that I found a problem when using a JSlider. Basically the situation is when you set paintTrack(false) it does not adhere to that rule. You can probably figure out what I was trying to do, without me telling you. My situation was painting something custom under the thumb without having to dive into the L&F itself, well really it was putting a JProgressBar under the JSlider using a JDesktopPane. I may try the JLayredPane, but this was for a quick mock up. Either way, I think I might be easier for me to change L&F to metal for that part of the GUI. Then come up with a custom thumb, since it doesn't paint the track. How’s it going Jasper and thanks for the great GUI.

Well almost great. ;)

I didn’t really know the proper place to post this but just wanted to let you know that I found a problem when using a JSlider. Basically the situation is when you set paintTrack(false) it does not adhere to that rule.

You can probably figure out what I was trying to do, without me telling you. My situation was painting something custom under the thumb without having to dive into the L&F itself, well really it was putting a JProgressBar under the JSlider using a JDesktopPane. I may try the JLayredPane, but this was for a quick mock up.

Either way, I think I might be easier for me to change L&F to metal for that part of the GUI. Then come up with a custom thumb, since it doesn’t paint the track.

]]> 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.

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