Look and feel mechanism?

[Pedro Duque Vieira]

Thanks!

@Jasper: Yes, that's very interesting! Forgot that was possible to do in
CSS.


On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 12:15 AM, Stephen Winnall <steve at winnall.ch> wrote:

> It may be possible to change the LOOK with CSS, but not the FEEL, which is
> where Java apps have traditionally failed big time.
>
> Some things that I don’t think can be changed with CSS:
>
> 1) texts
> 2) order of buttons
> 3) escape characters for shortcuts
> 4) menus
> 5) system-level stuff (double-clicking on files, dropping files on
> applications, …)
> 6) filesystem conventions
> 7) ...
>
> I think FXML can fix some of these, but not all. So it seems to me that a
> LaF in JFX will consist of at least:
>
>         - one or more CSS files
>         - one or more FXML files
>         - some plumbing at the system level
>
> It would be nice to have a set of proper LaFs for each major platform with
> an appropriate common API.
>
> Steve
>
> On 9 Dec 2013, at 00:20, Jasper Potts <jasper.potts at oracle.com> wrote:
>
> > You can set skin classes from CSS so should be able to do everything you
> could with Swing and more. With just a CSS file and skins as and when
> needed.
> >
> > Jasper
> >
> >> On Dec 8, 2013, at 3:00 PM, Jonathan Giles <jonathan.giles at oracle.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> At present there are no plans to introduce any further API or
> >> functionality in this area, but if there is something you are wanting
> >> then you should file feature requests in Jira.
> >>
> >> -- Jonathan
> >>
> >>> On 9/12/2013 11:54 a.m., Pedro Duque Vieira wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> Is there any Look and Feel mechanism in place, like the one in Swing?
> That
> >>> doesn't appear to exist..
> >>>
> >>> Are there any plans to add one? You can only do so much with CSS...
> >>>
> >>> Thanks in advance, best regards,
> >>
>
>


-- 
Pedro Duque Vieira