StageStyle and unified toolbars on the Mac

[Richard Bair]

Ok, I had been thinking it is just a normal decorated stage but transparent scene would be supported in that case. But I guess that is not enough because it draws the title bar wrong?

On Feb 23, 2012, at 6:08 AM, Kevin Rushforth wrote:

> In that case, maybe a separate property would be better, rather than a new StageStyle.
> 
> -- Kevin
> 
> 
> Pavel Safrata wrote:
>> Kevin, if I understand the request correctly, the goal is to have system default background, not transparent one and not white one.
>> Pavel
>> 
>> On 23.2.2012 14:47, Kevin Rushforth wrote:
>>> But since there will always be a Scene, wouldn't the following suffice?
>>> 
>>>   scene.setFill(Color.TRANSPARENT);
>>>   stage.initStageStyle(StageStyle.DECORATED_TRANSPARENT);
>>>   stage.setScene(scene);
>>> 
>>> -- Kevin
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Stephen Winnall wrote:
>>>> 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
>>>>>> 
>>>>