[jsword-devel] SkinLF (was: New Developer)

[Aleksander Rozman - Andy]

At 12/27/2003, you wrote:
>Aleksander Rozman - Andy wrote:
>>>>Here is the code to activate SkinLF.
>>>>
>>>>com.l2fprod.gui.plaf.skin.SkinLookAndFeel.setSkin(com.l2fprod.gui.plaf.skin.SkinLookAndFeel.loadThemePack("./aquathemepack.zip")); 
>>>>com.l2fprod.gui.plaf.skin.SkinLookAndFeel.enable();
>>>
>>>Ugh.
>>>That doesn't work very well with the PLAF system as designed by Sun. The 
>>>idea is that you can use a new PLAF without needing to hardcode your app.
>>>Are you sure there is no better way to use it?
>>Sorry no. We could just put one option in skin preferences to either load 
>>a class specified by uesr (it would be best if there would be fixed 
>>option with LFs installed in rt.jar+one custom option so that user can 
>>write it by hand) and second option to use skinlf with external LF file. 
>>For skinLF you can add L&F from many platform, you just need to suply 
>>them in zip file...
>
>I took a look through the javadoc for enable():
>"Set the look and feel to SkinLookAndFeel. This method must be called to 
>set the look and feel in applets or JavaWebStart enabled applications"
>
>And since this class inherits from javax.swing.LookAndFeel - I would have 
>thought that for applications we could use something more standard.
>
>We could easily add an option to config.xml that configured the skin 
>within skinlf, and when com.l2fprod.gui.plaf.skin.SkinLookAndFeel was set 
>as the skin (to be enabled by standard means) you got to see the 
>appropriate theme.
>
>Joe.

Yeah I have another great question. Why do you use XML files for 
configuration file. There are a lot of ways to configure software and 
instanciating about 30 classes to be able to read few settings is really 
not a way to go. Java has a nifty class called Properties, which can do 
everything... With a little memory.

Andy



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