Re: Windows Look and Feel - wrong display

From:
RedGrittyBrick <RedGrittyBrick@SpamWeary.foo>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:26:56 +0100
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wrabenstein@web.de wrote:

On 16 Apr., 10:22, Andrew Thompson <andrewtho...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Apr 15, 4:31 pm, wrabenst...@web.de wrote:

I have written a program with UI that I can switch to Windows L&F.

Do you have an SSCCE that demonstrates this behavior?

Alternately, is your app. publicly available?
(If so, at what URL, and how big is it?)

--
Andrew T.
PhySci.org


No SSCCE and not publically available, sorry. But I tried yesterday
with a very simple code:


FFS doesn't that "very simple code" constitute an SSCCE you could post here?

Create a JFrame, add a JPanel, add a
JTextField to the JPanel and setVisible(true)


You mean like this?

--------------------------- 8<----------------------------
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JTextField;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;

public class LAF {
     public static void main(String[] args) {
         SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
             public void run() {
                 new LAF();
             }
         });
     }

     LAF() {
         JButton aButton = new JButton("Alpha");
         JButton bButton = new JButton("Beta");
         bButton.setEnabled(false);

         JPanel p = new JPanel();
         p.add(new JTextField(10));
         p.add(aButton);
         p.add(bButton);

         JFrame f = new JFrame("LAF");
         f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
         f.add(p);
         f.pack();
         f.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
         f.setVisible(true);
     }
}
--------------------------- 8<----------------------------

- same result, under
Widnows the text-field displays completely "flat".


Under Windows XP the above SSCCE displays a JTextField with two pixel
border, the upper left pixels are dark, the lower right are light. This
consitutes a bevel - it isn't flat but it is hard to distinguish from
flat. I used the accessibility magnifier to check :-)

When I add
UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());
The JTextfiled has only a one-pixel mid-blue border. I guess this is
what you mean by flat. So far as I can tell this is the same as
Microsoft's own textfields in (for example) Start, Search.

The disabled button looks disabled.

How exactly does your mileage vary?

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