Re: SV: Progress bar UI refresment

As it turns out, this bug is fixed and put back into Mustang (though it 
may not have found its way out into the world yet -- give it a couple 
weeks).

Cheers
Richard

Milan Kubec wrote:

> 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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