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0 pointsCrinus6y ago0 comments

I remember >10 years ago there used to be some "plaf" libraries that provided very easy themeing abilities for Swing that even came with a WYSIWYG tool to create themes. It is a shame something like that never became part of Swing itself and instead you have to create tons of classes just for a theme.

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pjmlp6y ago

Or actually buy them.

http://www.jgoodies.com/ is still in business, to give a possible example.

CrinusOP6y ago

This doesn't fix the issue of Swing theming being hard. The fix would be to make it much easier, preferably with a visual editor.

pjmlp6y ago

You mean like Netbeans Matisse, or more like actually having a designer on the team?

CrinusOP6y ago

I was talking about themes, not UI design. Think GTK themes (though not their implementation), not where buttons in a form will go.

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pjmlp6y ago

Or actually buy them.

http://www.jgoodies.com/ is still in business, to give a possible example.

CrinusOP6y ago

This doesn't fix the issue of Swing theming being hard. The fix would be to make it much easier, preferably with a visual editor.

pjmlp6y ago

You mean like Netbeans Matisse, or more like actually having a designer on the team?

CrinusOP6y ago

I was talking about themes, not UI design. Think GTK themes (though not their implementation), not where buttons in a form will go.

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j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse