Re: SV: Progress bar UI refresment

Richard Bair wrote:
> Whoa! What version of Java are these screenshots from?
> 

I think it was JDK 1.5.0_06 but the same look of progress bar is on JDK 
1.4.2_10, JDK 1.5.0_06 and JDK 1.6.0.

   Milan

> Richard
> Swing Team
> 
> 
> Milan Kubec wrote:
>> Milan Kubec wrote:
>>> Milos Kleint wrote:
>>>> your proposal might be nice and everyone could agree that it's 
>>>> better looking, but currently we use the UI that comes with the look 
>>>> and feel if I remember correctly. It's just some tweaking with 
>>>> colors we do. So on macosx, it looks quite macosx like for example.
>>>>
>>>> I don't think we want to create and maintain special UI delegates 
>>>> for the progress bar for all the supported L&Fs. Because as I 
>>>> understood your proposal, it's only about windows L&F (is it XP or 
>>>> classic?)
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, it's Windows XP L&F. I'm attaching screenshot of progress bar 
>>> from SwingSet running on WinXP L&F and it also looks quite windowish, 
>>> so it must be the tweaking with colors as you mentioned which does that.
>>>
>>
>> I can answer this one. Attached screenshot shows how swing progress 
>> bar looks on WinXP L&F 1) with text in it 2) without text 3) 
>> indefinite. So there's not much we can do about it without creating 
>> own UI delegate :-(
>>
>>  Milan
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