Metro apps

[Nicolas Lorain]

Skinning to make apps look like Metro apps is one thing, getting them 
into the Windows Store is another thing. It eally depends what is the 
end goal.

On 1/7/13 1:51 PM, Jim Weaver wrote:
> David Qiao (copied) did some skinning as well as navigation work when 
> he Metro-styled JavaFX Ensemble for his JavaOne "JavaFX meets Metro" 
> session:
> https://oracleus.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=4996 
>
>
> Regards,
> Jim Weaver
>
> On 1/7/13 4:45 PM, Daniel Zwolenski wrote:
>> I wonder if Pedro's approach of simply "skinning" things to look Metro
>> would be a good interim solution. So apps are deployed
>> in compatibility mode but look somewhat windows8-like.
>>
>> Sounds like Jim already did a little of this. Perhaps there could be 
>> some
>> collab/sharing with Pedro to support him developing this for the 
>> benefit of
>> all.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 8:37 AM, Richard Bair 
>> <richard.bair at oracle.com>wrote:
>>
>>>> Lately my messages have been ignored on this mailing list by the 
>>>> javafx
>>>> team members.
>>> Vacation ;-)
>>>
>>> Long story short -- a port to WinRT would be that -- a full port,
>>> considered something different than the windows port (which is in large
>>> measure dependent on win32), largely due to limitations (such as 
>>> JIT), and
>>> the fact that it is a completely new stack that will just take time 
>>> to get
>>> to. As Nicolas mentioned, it isn't as high priority as Android and 
>>> iOS, and
>>> we don't have those ports available yet either ;-). So it will be a 
>>> while
>>> before we add it to our roadmap I would guess.
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>