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Re: Any good CSS style sheets for JavaFX Native look-and-feel?

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"Stefan Ram"  wrote in message 
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> Oracle does not seem to be willing to supply this.
> They must have a reason for this, but this reason is
> not published AFAIK.

1. As mentioned in my other post, native look and feel *never* works well 
enough to be acceptable.
2. The developer of said look and feel is forever playing catch-up as the 
target OS evolves.
3. Such beasts are not needed anyway.  The look and feel of an 
app/application (particularly on iOS or Android) is the least significant 
aspect of it.
4. A vast array of apps/applications already do not even try to look 
"native", even when they were developed using native tools like Visual 
Studio on Windows for example.
5. The cost of building an emulated native look and feel is extremely 
prohibitive as there are just so may subtle little nuances that you need to 
cater for, many of which utilise APIs only available to true native apps, 
and if you *don't* cater for these nuances your resulting product will be 
picked as bogus by any user.

> One third-party attempt is JMetro. But the Window L&F
>  itself today seems to be a moving target.

Yes, there is JMetro.  But given that Microsoft recently declared Metro (or 
"Modern UI") on Windows 8 and 8.1 as "a mistake" and that there will be no 
new updates for this OS after 8.1U1, don't expect any such touch-based UI in 
Windows 9 (which will be a familiar desktop OS like Windows 7 and earlier 
and will revitalise Win32 which MS were trying to kill-off).  Windows 9 will 
be rushed to market in a bid to wipe the painful memories of Windows 8 from 
loyal users in much the same way Windows 7 did for Vista.

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Any good CSS style sheets for JavaFX Native look-and-feel? Wayne <nospam@all.invalid> - 2014-04-22 23:27 -0400
  Re: Any good CSS style sheets for JavaFX Native look-and-feel? "Qu0ll" <Qu0llSixFour@gmail.com> - 2014-04-23 13:39 +1000
    Re: Any good CSS style sheets for JavaFX Native look-and-feel? Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2014-04-23 09:50 +0200
      Re: Any good CSS style sheets for JavaFX Native look-and-feel? "Qu0ll" <Qu0llSixFour@gmail.com> - 2014-04-23 18:11 +1000
  Re: Any good CSS style sheets for JavaFX Native look-and-feel? "Qu0ll" <Qu0llSixFour@gmail.com> - 2014-04-23 14:32 +1000

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