Comments on: Sexy Swing App – The Unified Toolbar

By: Tristan Seifert

Tristan Seifert — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:32:29 +0000

I made a Music Player like iTunes in Java. Here it is:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/jtunes-online/

Screenshoots should be somewhere…

By: Ken

Ken — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:19:26 +0000

Check out the code here:

http://code.google.com/p/macwidgets/source/browse/trunk/source/com/explodingpixels/macwidgets/UnifiedToolBar.java

By: James Low

James Low — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:12:10 +0000

Can you share your code where you paint the gradients your self? I want to get something working on Java 1.6

By: dyorgio

dyorgio — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:02:19 +0000

I already knew these properties. Just thought you made this implementation on your own.
It would be a good addition to the Mac Widgets? :-)
Because today like this, use the UnitedBar in windows is horrible.
I would be happy to help, the more you did not answer the email we sent you with the sample application :-(

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:39:24 +0000

The search field is courtesy of the client properties supplied by Apple in TN-2196. You'll have to implement it from scratch if you want the same look on another platform.

By: dyorgio

dyorgio — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:27:30 +0000

of course…plataform independent :-P

By: dyorgio

dyorgio — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:26:33 +0000

Hi man, who you make search field in toolbar?
this is part of mac Widgets? please, make a post about this component :)

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:48:20 +0000

Hi Ken,

Thanks for the reply. I took a look to the 10.5.5 Preview 2 known issues and found out that apple is aware of the BrushmetalLook issue: “The apple.awt.brushMetalLook does not render correctly in 64-bit processes”. I just hope they will fix the problem soon.

Jeff

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:12:05 +0000

Hi Harald,

Glad your finding this component useful! Regarding the Java 6 painting issue…I’m going to email java-dev@lists.apple.com to find out what’s going on with the textured window painting.

As far as making the UnifiedToolBar into a UI delegate rather than a component: I prefer the encapsulation that the component provides. For example, you can add to the left, middle or right of the toolbar via provided methods. I have made UI delegates for some items in the Mac Widgets for Java project, but most of those are hidden behind factory methods that install the delegates for you.

Thanks for the feedback Harald!

-Ken

By: Harald K.

Harald K. — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:22:59 +0000

Thanks, this is really cool! I’ve tried to achieve the same thing in about a hundred ways that didn’t work, and then this really elegant and easy solution exists… ;-)

I’ve made a slight hack to make it work on Java 6, painting the gradients myself. Is there a way to get the gradient colors from the system?

Also, I’ve been thinking maybe this should rather be a custom UI delegate for JToolBar, rather than a component on it’s own?