Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Qu0ll" Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Any good CSS style sheets for JavaFX Native look-and-feel? Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 14:32:57 +1000 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 42 Message-ID: References: <8qG5v.60379$Pk4.24681@fx28.iad> NNTP-Posting-Host: gT7WcVnjzFXCdUDkzgQfoQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V15.4.3555.308 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 15.4.3555.308 Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:28192 "Stefan Ram" wrote in message news:JavaFX-20140423054618@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de... > 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. -- And loving it, -Qu0ll (Rare, not extinct) _________________________________________________ Qu0llSixFour@gmail.com [Replace the "SixFour" with numbers to email me]