Metro apps

[Richard Bair]

Very cool!

On Jan 16, 2013, at 5:48 AM, Hendrik Ebbers <hendrik.ebbers at me.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I created a summary of all approaches about JavaFX platform specific skins I currently know:  http://www.guigarage.com/2013/01/this-is-for-the-native-ones/
> Based on this, a prove of concept for an Aqua skin was implemented. Maybe this will be realized in a students thesis. More information can be found in the post.
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Hendrik
> 
> 
> Am 07. Januar 2013 um 23:18 schrieb Richard Bair <richard.bair at oracle.com>:
> 
>> Also, right now we don't have any plan to do platform specific skins, so a 3rd party doing platform specific skins / CSS is highly encouraged!
>> 
>> On Jan 7, 2013, at 2:04 PM, Daniel Zwolenski <zonski at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> > On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Nicolas Lorain <nicolas.lorain at oracle.com>wrote:
>> > 
>> >> 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.
>> > 
>> > 
>> > Both :) Skinning we can achieve now, app store will take longer. Doing the
>> > easy win skinning now will make JFX at least somewhat appealing to early
>> > JFX+Win8 adopters/trail-blazers, which in turn could lead to better input
>> > on what works and what doesn't when the official JFX platform decides to
>> > include it. Similar to the sort of approach Jonathan takes with getting
>> > people to contribute and play with new controls before they go into the
>> > official code.
>> > 
>> > Pedro has been doing some work on this skinning, which seems like a
>> > valuable contribution/test-bed for the work that Oracle will eventually
>> > want to do when it comes to supporting Windows 8 properly. Seems like a
>> > situation where working with Pedro and supporting him would result in less
>> > overall work for Oracle in the long run. i.e. leveraging the community
>> > resources to your advantage.
>> > 
>> > 
>> > 
>> >> 
>> >> 
>> >> 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<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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