[jsword-devel] Look and Feel

[DM Smith]

I am in sync w/ CVS.

I have already spent over 30 minutes on it. And it is not obvious.

As to winlaf, their website moved and it looks like they are actively 
working on Java 1.5.

So with that I am going to ditch it as part of 0.9.8+ (unstable) :-)

Joe Walker wrote:

>I thought I'd fixed the LAF problem by delaying the init already - are
>you sync with CVS?
>I have to say the [...] has been a bit of a niggle in the back of my
>mind anyway because it isn't obvious what it does and because the
>drawing is a little off anyway. I think we might be better off with a
>"Choose" button or similar?
>
>On the down side it doesn't look like WinLAF is very active at the
>moment. They were half way to a 0.5, but things have slowed down
>somewhat. And come JDK 5 (I hope) it is not needed anyway.
>
>My vote would be if we can fix the !Resource.Name! issues in 30 mins
>work or so then good, otherwise we ditch it.
>
>Joe.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: DM Smith <dmsmith555 at yahoo.com>
>Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 14:48:13 -0400
>Subject: [jsword-devel] Look and Feel
>To: Java SWORD Developers Mailing List <jsword-devel at crosswire.org>
>
> I think I discovered why the tabs showed up as Metal LaF. The
>LookAndFeelUtil used to initialize winlaf after the windows LaF was
>set. Now it is doing it before. The net result is that winlaf has
>nothing to tweak or that the tweaks are undone by setting the win LaF.
>(I did not step through the code to determine which it was).
> 
> Anyway, after doing some investigation, I found out that non of
>winlaf is being applied to the windows LaF. The winlaf website gives
>drawings of what it should look like and our app does not look like
>it.
> 
> When I fixed it, I did not like what I saw. Right clicking on stuff
>would produce popups with useful options (this is goodness) but the
>labels for each were something like:
>     !TextComponentPopup.Undo!
> 
> I imagine I can figure out how to fix it, but a more general question
>is do we care? Do we use winlaf or pitch it?
> I have attached the image for your pleasure:
> 
> 
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