Re: Dark L&F and Notifications

geertjan wielenga <[email protected]> Tue, 02 Feb 2016 15:38:52 +0100
Newsgroups	gmane.comp.java.netbeans.modules.openide.devel
Organization	Oracle Corporation
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
Nope, it's on 8.1, has just been released in the past day or so again in 
version 1.4.

Any questions, you can direct them not here but to its author Hamit: 
[email protected]

You can right again here, though it won't help -- write to the author of 
the plugin.

Thanks,

Gj


On 2-2-2016 15:08, Peter Hansson wrote:
> I've just tried Darcula on my application and it has (as expected) 
> exactly the same challenge. The blue text on a dark background is more 
> or less impossible to read.
>
> BTW: Darcula plugin for Netbeans is still on NB80, not NB81. This 
> doesn't mean that it will not work in a NB IDE 8.1 but it isn't a 
> smooth sail. I'm trying to upgrade it to NB 8.1.
>
> Using the plugin with an RCP application as opposed to the IDE isn't 
> as simple as I hoped. The reason is some dependencies on Editor Color 
> (for the use of Themes I suppose) and this is just not available to 
> normal RCP app.
>
> On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 1:55 PM, geertjan wielenga 
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 
> wrote:
>
>
>     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
>
>
>