On 01/04/16 16:12, Mario Torre wrote:
On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 1:49 PM, Alexander Scherbatiy
<alexandr.scherba...@oracle.com> wrote:
May be someone wants to get
fonts or colors from Windows L&F on Linux for its own custom L&F? It would
be useful to allow it.
I don't think this would make any sense, the colours would still
depend on a specific version of the OS, so is not clear what
UIDefaults are returned by the Windows LAF on Linux or OSX, and those
may also be different in different versions of Windows itself.
I believe the Windows LAF is not "simulated" either, but the rendering
is redirected to native widgets pretty much like the GTK/OSX Look and
Feels work, so I doubt that running an application with the Windows
LAF under Linux would work at all (or perhaps it could is running with
wine, is that possible?), but I admit I didn't try this, so I'm open
to be very surprised :)
I think the sanest approach is to not support this scenario, though.
I see the point that creating non installed system L&F may not have
many sense.
One more use case that should be considered is using the
createLookAndFeel(className) method with custom L&Fs.
For example someone can have a list with L&F class names which
includes both system and custom L&F.
Using a class name he wants to check if the given L&F is supported.
Does he need to install the custom L&F first?
If no, he will need to handle L&Fs differently using
UIManager.createLookAndFeel(className) for system L&Fs and reflection
for custom.
Thanks,
Alexandr.
Cheers,
Mario
