StageStyle and unified toolbars on the Mac

[Stephen Winnall]

Hi Kevin

Whereas DECORATED_TRANSPARENT is also a possible desirable StageStyle, it wouldn't solve my problem. I just need DECORATED_WITHOUT_ANYTHING_ELSE (what I call bare boards). I think the point is that the Stage should not provide any sort of background, just what the native windowing system provides. Any background is a task for the Scene. In my view, instead of StageStyle, Stage should have provided #decorated, #transparent and #utility as three independent properties.

Cheers
Steve

On 23 Feb 2012, at 14:04, Kevin Rushforth wrote:

> 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
>>>>       
>> 
>>