Re: Dark L&F and Notifications

geertjan wielenga <[email protected]> Tue, 02 Feb 2016 13:55:44 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.java.netbeans.modules.openide.devel
Organization	Oracle Corporation
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On 2-2-2016 13:40, Peter Hansson wrote:
>
> In my RCP application I'm working with a dark L&F. Seems so popular 
> these days.

I advise you to try the Darcula look and feel instead:

http://plugins.netbeans.org/plugin/62424/darcula-laf-for-netbeans

Gj

>
> The problem I have is with the standard Notifications, the little 
> things in the lower right hand of the main frame that comes up as a 
> balloon notification: The clickable text is just too hard (if not 
> impossible) to read on a dark background because it is hardcoded to 
> Color.BLUE.
>
> I'm thinking that all implementers of a dark'ish L&F must have come 
> across this.
>
> The problem is with NotificationImpl in core.ui. If you look into the 
> source you'll see that the clickable text isn't actually a link but is 
> simply some underlined text (<html><u>) inside a JButton and then the 
> implementation does :
>
> btn.setForeground(Color.blue);
>
> Ouch!
>
> So the color is hardcoded.
>
> How to solve ?
>
> Thanks
>
> Peter