Metro apps

[Hendrik Ebbers]

Thanks :)

Am 16. Januar 2013 um 16:42 schrieb Richard Bair <richard.bair at oracle.com>:

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.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>