Comments on: Creating a UnifiedToolBarButtonUI

By: Source List item badging « Exploding Pixels

Source List item badging « Exploding Pixels — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:07:14 +0000

[...] which will make the pixels in the image transparent (I briefly discussed this technique here). Note that we only use this punch-out effect when the list item is [...]

By: rbs

rbs — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:24:15 +0000

I expected it was something like that, i.e., alpha = 0. Thanks.

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:22:43 +0000

Sorry about that…MacColorUtils.EMPTY_COLOR = new Color(0,0,0,0). This is a fully transparent color.

I’ve updated the post with the change.

By: rbs

rbs — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:17:19 +0000

The MacColorUtils class referenced in the code doesn’t appear elsewhere in your blog. So I’m wondering, what’s the definition of MacColorUtils.EMPTY_COLOR?

By: Creating a PreferencesTabBarButtonUI « Exploding Pixels

Creating a PreferencesTabBarButtonUI « Exploding Pixels — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:41:21 +0000

[...] All the elements (the outer, inner and center fill) are filled with half-height gradients, allowing them to fade to the top and bottom. This is relatively easy to create using Java 2D (you can find the implementation of UnifiedToolbarButtonUI here): [...]

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:00:10 +0000

Hey Felix,

Great point…Apple’s behavior uses the isArmed state. I’ve updated the code to reflect your suggestion. I’ve also incorporated Kirill’s suggestion of using BasicGraphicUtils.drawStringUnderlineCharAt.

-Ken

By: Felix

Felix — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:35:23 +0000

And maybe you could also call an additional model.isArmed() every time you call model.isPressed(); the visual feedback now is not how it’s for “normal” tbButtons (the native ones).

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:00:02 +0000

Kirill Grouchnikov correctly pointed out on his blog this week that I should have used BasicGraphicsUtils.drawStringUnderlineCharAt instead of SwingUtilities2.drawStringUnderlineCharAt, which is an unsupported class.

By: Swing links of the week: July 20, 2008 : Pushing Pixels

Swing links of the week: July 20, 2008 : Pushing Pixels — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:11:12 +0000

[...] Orr writes about unified toolbar buttons in his quest to emulate the appearance of native Mac applications. Surprisingly, this entry [...]

By: Ken

Ken — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:41:57 +0000

Great thoughts Felix. I was also thinking that it would be useful to encapsulate the popdown button that Apple usesin toolbars. I don’t know if I’d do this with a client property – that could work. It might be more straight forward to just create a component that aggregates a button and a popup menu.

Let me know what you come up with.

-Ken