Re: [Ldsoss] AntiAlias Java

2006-08-25 Thread Tom Welch
Ahhh, excellent! I knew there had to be an easier way. tom Ben Galbraith wrote: On Aug 24, 2006, at 8:20 AM, Tom Welch wrote: Many java applications if using swing tend to have really ugly UI's. The fonts look terrible. I wrote some code that can make them look a whole lot better. This

Re: [Ldsoss] AntiAlias Java

2006-08-25 Thread Ben Galbraith
On Aug 25, 2006, at 1:19 PM, Slide wrote: From what I understand SWT is much better as it is a wrapper of the If you're not already aware, making a statement like this is an excellent way to start a flame war in Java circles. ;-) There are two legitimate ways to pursue writing cross-platfo

Re: [Ldsoss] AntiAlias Java

2006-08-25 Thread Slide
From what I understand SWT is much better as it is a wrapper of the native windowing toolkit for the platform (WinAPI on Windows, GTK on Linux, etc). This would seem to me to make the fonts, etc look as good as native applications. ___ Ldsoss mailing li

Re: [Ldsoss] AntiAlias Java

2006-08-25 Thread Ben Galbraith
On Aug 25, 2006, at 10:58 AM, Jay Askren wrote: I tried your code on version of 1.5_04 of java and it didn't work. SwingUtilities2 is not mentioned in the javadocs for Java 1.5, so I looked at the code for SwingUtilities2 source code, and it appears that SwingUtilities2 is not stable, and

RE: [Ldsoss] AntiAlias Java

2006-08-25 Thread Manfred Riem
uot;true");     Kind regards,Manfred Riem [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.manorrock.org/   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jay AskrenSent: Friday, August 25, 2006 10:59 AMTo: LDS Open Source SoftwareSubject: Re: [Ldsoss] AntiAlias Java I tried your code on version

Re: [Ldsoss] AntiAlias Java

2006-08-25 Thread Jay Askren
I tried your code on version of 1.5_04 of java and it didn't work.  SwingUtilities2 is not mentioned in the javadocs for Java 1.5, so I looked at the code for SwingUtilities2 source code, and it appears that SwingUtilities2 is not stable, and the the comments said to not rely on the class.   I did

Re: [Ldsoss] AntiAlias Java

2006-08-25 Thread Ben Galbraith
On Aug 24, 2006, at 8:20 AM, Tom Welch wrote: Many java applications if using swing tend to have really ugly UI's. The fonts look terrible. I wrote some code that can make them look a whole lot better. This code requires jre 1.5. If you're on JDK5, just set this system property: swing

[Ldsoss] AntiAlias Java

2006-08-24 Thread Tom Welch
Many java applications if using swing tend to have really ugly UI's.  The fonts look terrible.  I wrote some code that can make them look a whole lot better.  This code requires jre 1.5.  Simply put this method into some type of utilities class and then call it whenever you want to make a comp