StageStyle and unified toolbars on the Mac

[Kevin Rushforth]

Thanks for filing this. I added the following comment to the JIRA:

"One way to provide the desired capability would be to add 
StageStyle.DECORATED_TRANSPARENT, perhaps with a shorter name."

-- Kevin


Stephen Winnall wrote:
> Given the text of the StageStyle Javadoc:
>
> "	DECORATED
> 	Defines a normal Stage style with a solid white background and platform decorations.
>
> 	TRANSPARENT
> 	Defines a Stage style with a transparent background and no decorations.
>
> 	UNDECORATED
> 	Defines a Stage style with a solid white background and no decorations.
>
> 	UTILITY
> 	Defines a Stage style with a solid white background and minimal platform decorations used for a utility window.
> ", 
> I suspect the software is performing to spec., i.e. it's not a bug, strictly speaking :-)
>
> But I've submitted a feature report  (I'm not that familiar with Jira and am new to JavaFX 2). You can see it at
>
> 	http://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-19834
>
> Cheers
> Steve
>
> On 22 Feb 2012, at 19:27, Richard Bair wrote:
>
>   
>> Hmm, tried a transparent background but it didn't look like it would work. You may want to file a bug on this.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Richard
>>
>> On Feb 22, 2012, at 7:04 AM, Stephen Winnall wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> I'm trying to create a unified toolbar on the Mac using JavaFX 2.1 b13. For those who don't know what that is, there's an example (albeit for Qt) at
>>>
>>> 	http://labs.qt.nokia.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/oldandunified.png
>>>
>>> (The bottom variant is the unified toolbar).
>>>
>>> I've managed this with Swing using Java 1.6. You do it by creating a JFrame with apple.awt.brushMetalLook set to TRUE and adding a transparent JToolBar at the top of the frame. It looks like this (after appropriate styling of the JToolBar and its buttons):
>>>
>>> 	http://yfrog.com/mrh1ydp
>>>
>>> You can then add further content (e.g. in a JPanel with a white background) after the toolbar.
>>>
>>> I can't see how to do this with JavaFX. In fact, I suspect it is impossible, because a Stage either has a solid white background or is completely transparent according to StageStyle. Is there any way of suppressing the sold white background? Why does a Stage have to have a white background at all? Shouldn't it just provide the boards (to stick with the theatre metaphor)? The white background belongs to the scene, surely?
>>>
>>> Perhaps there's another way of making a unified toolbar?
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Steve
>>>       
>
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