JavaFX 2.0

[Tobias Bley]

Hi Steve,

I'm very impressed of Java FX 2.1 and we are thinking about creating new applications with JavaFX instead of Swing. But a big problem in our point of view is the missing native skin support (css). So the caspian skin (caspian.css) looks very good, but  I want to develop native looking apps for the AppStore for instance, I need a native looking css file (skin aka Look and Feel). 

Currently there is no such native looking skin but I think it's not very difficult to do that. All you have to do is the adjust the JavaFX2.1 default skin file (caspian.css). You'll find a good starting point here: http://fxexperience.com/2011/12/styling-fx-buttons-with-css/

It's an example of styling native looking buttons (e.g. Windows7, Mac OS X, iPad, iPhone, ...) with pure css.

The best approach to develop native skins for Windows and Mac OS X seams to be to take the swing approach (query colors, fonts, backgrounds and so on from the OS theme) and use it in conjunction with JavaFX' skin approarch (css file, FX skin class, bevaviour, components....)

Best regards,
Tobi


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Am 28.02.2012 um 23:54 schrieb Stephen Winnall <steve at winnall.ch>:

> I'm looking at JavaFX 2.1 and especially how to make JavaFX applications behave well under Mac OS X. It occurred to me that much of the work done on AWT and Swing for Mac OS X could be reused for JavaFX.
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> Is this a realistic assumption? If so, could someone point me in the right direction? I'm not entirely clear as to what has been released to OpenJDK and what not.
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> Steve
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