Progress of the components

Java Swing has many UI elements. These must all be styled by creating a UI delegate. On this page we maintain an overview of the GUI components and our progress making them Oxygen-like. This is probably most useful for developers wanting to style their application using Joxy.

For previous versions of Joxy, we maintain an archive of which GUI components were supported at that time:

• [Progress of the components 0.0.2]
• [Progress of the components 0.0.3]
• [Progress of the components 0.1.0]
• [Progress of the components 0.2.0]

The progress outlined on this page concerns the version currently in Git.

General:

• HTML is supported on most, but not all, widgets.
• On many places the settings that the programmer configures, e.g. setBackground(), are simply ignored.

Component	UI delegate	Progress
JButton	JoxyButtonUI	Good, also toolbar buttons, animations and disabled state are supported, but buttons don't yet use the correct background colour from the KDE theme
JCheckBox	JoxyCheckBoxUI	Good, also with animation
JColorChooser	JoxyColorChooserUI	We are at the moment busy implementing a custom colour chooser that looks like KDE's
JComboBox	JoxyComboBoxUI	Good, also scrolling through the combo box is working
JEditorPane	JoxyEditorPaneUI	Good (but we have to fill the background with grey)
JFileChooser	JoxyFileChooserUI	Reasonably: we use the normal Metal file chooser, but with Oxygen icons. We will start working on a custom, more KDE-like file chooser soon.
JFormattedTextField	JoxyFormattedTextFieldUI	Same as JTextField
JLabel	JoxyLabelUI	Good
JList	JoxyListUI	Correct border, animations and "hover" state for elements
JMenuBar	JoxyMenuBarUI	Good, but the highlight color is slightly wrong
JMenuItem	JoxyMenuItemUI	Good, but menu items with check boxes or radio buttons are not yet supported
JMenu	JoxyMenuUI	Works reasonably
JOptionPane	JoxyOptionPaneUI	Good, and also uses Oxygen icons for error, warning etc.
JPanel	JoxyPanelUI	Good
JPasswordField	JoxyPasswordFieldUI	Same as JTextField
JPopupMenu	JoxyPopupMenu	Works reasonably
JProgressBar	JoxyProgressBarUI	Very good, this is done by looking at the native C++ code to see how Oxygen draws progress bars itself
JRadioButton	JoxyRadioButtonUI	Good, also with animation
JRootPane	JoxyRootPaneUI	This paints the radial background and works very well
JScrollPane	JoxyScrollPaneUI	Good, with a highlight effect on hover
JSlider	JoxySliderUI	Good
JSpinner	JoxySpinnerUI	Good, arrow buttons are working and it is possible to use the scroll wheel to change the value
JTabbedPane	JoxyTabbedPaneUI	Works reasonably, but not perfect and only for tabs on the top. Multiple tab runs are not supported in KDE, and thus ignored by us
JTable	JoxyTableUI	Reasonably, the header is also working
JTextArea	JoxyTextAreaUI	Good (but we have to fill the background with grey)
JTextField	JoxyTextFieldUI	Works well, with a KDE-like clear button and animations
JTextPane	JoxyTextPaneUI	Inherits from JoxyEditorPaneUI, works well
JToggleButton	JoxyToggleButtonUI	Good, just like the JButton
JToolBar	JoxyToolBarUI	Made it non-opaque, and buttons that are placed on the toolbar look different (no background painted), just as in KDE
JTree	JoxyTreeUI	Correct border and background, further nothing done
JViewport	JoxyViewportUI	Nothing done

Elements not in this list have not been worked on yet and will probably look very ugly.