Showing posts with label UI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UI. Show all posts

Monday, 20 August 2012

JavaFX CSS Styling

I've been working on a light grey look and feel for JavaFX with square corners, inspired by the Swing Substance (Business Grey) Look and Feel.  Here are the results so far:




And just as a reminder as to the default JavaFX look and feel:



This is a work in progress and not all of the controls are styled.  This skin has now become the first entrant in the jfxtras-styles project hosted on github or click here if you just want to grab source.

The extra space is to show the drop shadows on the titled panes which I use quite a lot in my own application.

Update:
Just to show the different a little CSS styling can do, below is a recent screenshot of EstiMate, the JavaFX project I have been working on.  It's come a long way!  You can take a look at the CSS here.

Sunday, 3 January 2010

TweetDeck and Window Title Bars

I've just downloaded tweetdeck and it looks really beautiful.  The Adobe AIR install worked seamlessly as well, working with Java it's easy to forget thats possible :P

The problem is that TweetDeck uses the standard title bar in XP and I assume for other operating systems as well.  This is fine for systems that actually look nice like Mac and some of the newer Gnome skins but in XP this is noticably ugly since the rest of the UI looks so nice.  Firefox also suffers from this when using the Personas plugin.  It isn't that difficult to have an undecorated window and create a custom title bar is it?