Re: [Swingosc-devel] Linux LAF

[James H. <jam...@gm...>]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Sciss <co...@sc...> wrote:

> if you can install sun's java 1.6, i recommend nimbus which is really great
> looking. if you can't for some reason (e.g. i'm not sure it's included in
> openJDK), you could i think still install it separately from
> https://nimbus.dev.java.net/   . did you try the Gtk look and feel?
>

GTK looks about the same as Motif, only brighter. Here's the problem with
those:

(
w = Window("lo-res slider", Rect(10, 100, 125, 50));
z = Slider(w, Rect(5, 5, 50, 20)).action_({ |view| view.value.postln });
w.front;
)

With GTK/Motif, moving the thumb by 1 pixel changes the value by
0.083333333022892, or 1/12. Very poor resolution.


> nimbus ideally could render differently big slider knobs, but at least in
> the java 1.6 version that snow leopard ships with, the resize hints
> (JComponent.sizeVariant) are broken unfortunately.
>

Thanks for the suggestion. Sliders are much prettier. I have a LOT of them
in my GUI and when they look bad, the whole thing is an assault on the eye.

Small static text views, not so good - even the Volume control in the server
window is unreadable. I can live with it for now. Or maybe I just need more
fonts.

unfortunately i don't have much time, but we could still plan to use a
> custom slider instead of JSlider, as that would allow for more closer
> matching with cocoa gui, e.g. slider track and knob colours etc. the
> original JSlider (which i like quite much) could then be with another
> swingOSC only class.
>

Nah, I don't that's necessary.
hjh


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